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16-letter words containing s, p, r, i, g, e

  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • linux user group — (body, operating system)   (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • marseille prolog — (language)   One of the two main dialects of Prolog, the other being Edinburgh Prolog. The difference is largely syntax. The original Marseille Interpreter (1973) was written in Fortran.
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megasporogenesis — the formation and development of megaspores.
  • metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
  • operating system — (operating system)   (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
  • operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • parallel sailing — sailing along a parallel of latitude.
  • parents' evening — an occasion when the parents of children at a school and their teachers come together (outside normal school hours, in the evening) in order to discuss the progress or work of the children
  • passenger pigeon — an extinct pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, once found in great numbers in North America, noted for its sustained migratory flights.
  • past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
  • pelican crossing — place to cross road
  • pension mortgage — an arrangement whereby a person takes out a mortgage and pays the capital repayment instalments into a pension fund and the interest to the mortgagee. The loan is repaid out of the tax-free lump sum proceeds of the pension plan on the borrower's retirement
  • perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
  • personal hygiene — bodily cleanliness
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacogenomics — the study of human genetic variability in relation to drug action and its application to medical treatment
  • philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • philosopher-king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • pleasure-seeking — always looking for pleasure
  • portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
  • portuguese timor — former (1914-75) Portuguese territory in the Malay Archipelago
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • pre-registration — the act of registering.
  • preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • prestige pricing — the practice of giving a product a high price to convey the idea that it must be of high quality or status
  • preunderstanding — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
  • process printing — a method of printing almost any color by using a limited number of separate color plates, as yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, in combination.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
  • progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format)   (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
  • prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.
  • pseudo-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
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