16-letter words containing p, y, o, s
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- storage capacity — amount of room or space
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- to spend a penny — If someone says that they are going to spend a penny, they mean that they are going to go to the toilet.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
- up to one's eyes — extremely busy (with)
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
- zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.