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16-letter words containing s, t, e, p, d

  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • dip one's toe in — to begin doing or try something new or unfamiliar
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
  • displacement ton — a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu. ft. (1 cu. m) of seawater.
  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
  • federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
  • feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • footsteps editor — the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
  • frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
  • high-speed steel — an especially hard, heat-resistant steel for use in lathe tools and for other applications involving high friction and wear.
  • household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • interdependences — Plural form of interdependence.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • inverted nipples — nipples which do not project from the breast but are retracted
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • mineral deposits — amounts of minerals that occur naturally in particular areas
  • multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
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