16-letter words containing s, t, i, p, e
- cryoprecipitates — Plural form of cryoprecipitate.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- data compression — the act of compressing.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- deep in the past — long ago
- deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
- depart this life — to die
- departmentalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of departmentalize.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
- developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- 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.
- eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
- entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
- exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- 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).