20-letter words containing p, t, e

megabytes per second — (unit) (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576).
megakaryocytopoiesis — (biology) The cellular development process that leads to platelet production.
member of parliament — A Member of Parliament is a person who has been elected by the people in a particular area to represent them in a country's parliament. The abbreviation MP is often used.
member of the public — a member of the general population
methyl propyl ketone — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 5 H 1 0 O, used chiefly as a solvent, especially in lacquers.
microelectrophoresis — any of several techniques for observing, by means of a microscope or an ultramicroscope, the electrophoresis of minute surface particles.
military superiority — the power, strength, or numbers of armed forces of a country viewed as an advantage over another country
minkowski space-time — a four-dimensional space in which three coordinates specify the position of a point in space and the fourth represents the time at which an event occurred at that point
model-view-presenter — (programming) (MVP) A user interface architectural pattern where functions are separated between the model, view and presenter. The model defines the data to be displayed or otherwise acted upon in the user interface. The view displays data from the model and routes user commands (events) to the presenter to act upon that data. The presenter retrieves data from the model and displays it in the view. The implementation of MVP can vary as to how much presentation logic is handled by the presenter and the view. In a web application most presentation logic is usually in the view which runs in the web browser. MVP is one of the MV* variations of the MVC pattern.
mollweide projection — homolographic projection.
mopping-up operation — an operation after a battle or campaign to root out remaining enemy forces or installations
mother of the chapel — (in British trade unions in the publishing and printing industries) a woman shop steward
mother-of-pearl moth — a pyralid moth, Pleuroptya ruralis, having a pale sheen, that is often seen around nettles, on which its green larvae feed
multipart stationery — continuous stationery comprising two or more sheets, either carbonless or with carbon paper between the sheets
multiple inheritance — (programming) In object-oriented programming, the possibility that a class may have more than one direct superclass in the class hierarchy. The opposite is single inheritance.
multiple personality — a rare disorder in which an individual displays several functionally dissociated personalities, each of a complexity comparable to that of a normal individual.
multiplication table — Arithmetic. a tabular listing of the products of any two numbers of a set, usually of the integers 1 through 10 or 1 through 12.
multiplicative group — a group in which the operation of the group is multiplication.
multipurpose vehicle — a large car, similar to a van, designed to carry up to eight passengers
multistep hydroplane — a motorship having a flat bottom built as a series of planes inclined forward, the ship planing on each from stem to stern as its speed increases.
multistorey car park — a car park consisting of several levels
music of the spheres — a music, imperceptible to human ears, formerly supposed to be produced by the movements of the spheres or heavenly bodies.
neapolitan ice cream — variously flavored and colored ice cream and ice mixtures frozen in layers.
negative campaigning — political campaigning in which a politician or party focuses on criticizing another politician or party rather than emphasizing their own positive qualities
neon lamp (or tube) — a discharge lamp containing neon, that ionizes and glows with a red light (neon light) when an electric current is sent through it: used esp. in advertising signs
net domestic product — the gross domestic product minus an allowance for the depreciation of capital goods
net national product — the gross national product less allowance for depreciation of capital goods. Abbreviation: NNP.
network transparency — (networking) A feature of an operating system or other service which lets the user access a remote resource through a network without having to know if the resource is remote or local. For example NFS allow users to access remote files as if they were local files.
neuropsychiatrically — In terms of neuropsychiatry.
new democratic party — the Canadian social democratic party formed in 1961
next program counter — (architecture) (nPC) A register in a CPU that contains the address of the instruction to be executed next.
nondirective therapy — client-centered therapy.
nonrepeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
north american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising Greenland and the continent of North America and the suboceanic Labrador and North American Basins, and bounded on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the south by the Caribbean and South American Plates, and on the west by the San Andreas fault and Aleutian Trench.
north celestial pole — the point of intersection of the earth's extended axis and the northern half of the celestial sphere, lying about 1° from Polaris
north temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle.
objective complement — object complement.
occupation franchise — the right of a tenant to vote in national and local elections
occupational disease — Also called industrial disease. a disease caused by the conditions or hazards of a particular occupation.
occupational pension — a pension scheme provided for the members of a particular occupation or by a specific employer or group of employers
occupational therapy — a form of therapy in which patients are encouraged to engage in vocational tasks or expressive activities, as art or dance, usually in a social setting.
of (the) deepest dye — of the most marked, esp. the worst, sort
omega-minus particle — a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. Symbol: Ω −.
on tiptoe/on tiptoes — If you do something on tiptoe or on tiptoes, you do it standing or walking on the front part of your foot, without putting your heels on the ground.
one's misspent youth — the period when one is young and spend's one's time doing foolish, bad, or frivolous things
one's spiritual home — Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.
open learning centre — an establishment which provides further education on a flexible part-time basis
operant conditioning — conditioning (def 1).
operating conditions — Operating conditions are a set of conditions for operating a particular system or process.
operation barbarossa — the codename for Hitler's invasion (1941) of Russia

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