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16-letter words containing oi

  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • interappointment — Between appointments.
  • iridochoroiditis — inflammation of the iris and the choroid.
  • joint resolution — a resolution adopted by both branches of a bicameral legislative assembly and requiring the signature of the chief executive to become law.
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
  • lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
  • loire-atlantique — a department in NW France. 2695 sq. mi. (6980 sq. km). Capital: Nantes.
  • lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
  • louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
  • macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
  • male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
  • marie antoinette — Marie [muh-ree;; French ma-ree] /məˈri;; French maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1755–93, queen of France 1774–93: wife of Louis XVI.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
  • multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
  • neoimpressionism — the theory and practice of a group of post-impressionists of about the middle 1880s, characterized chiefly by a systematic juxtaposition of dots or points of pure color according to a concept of the optical mixture of hues.
  • noise prevention — the prevention of annoying or harmful noise in an environment
  • noise suppressor — squelch (def 8).
  • non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • octanedioic acid — a colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid found in suberin and castor oil and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: HOOC(CH2)6COOH
  • odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
  • oil installation — a facility or place where petroleum is extracted for industrial purposes
  • oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
  • overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
  • pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
  • pays de la loire — a region of W France, on the Bay of Biscay: generally low-lying, drained by the River Loire and its tributaries; agricultural
  • percentage point — difference: one per cent
  • pinpoint bombing — precision bombing.
  • pithecanthropoid — of, relating to, or resembling the former genus Pithecanthropus or one of its members.
  • point de hongrie — flame stitch.
  • point estimation — the process of determining a single estimated value (point estimate) of a parameter of a given population.
  • point of contact — (networking)   (POC) An individual associated with a particular Internet entity (IP network, domain, ASN).
  • point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
  • poiseuille's law — the law that the velocity of a liquid flowing through a capillary is directly proportional to the pressure of the liquid and the fourth power of the radius of the capillary and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the liquid and the length of the capillary.
  • poison sb's mind — If someone poisons your mind against another person, they make you dislike that person, usually by telling you things that are not true.
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • poitou-charentes — a region of W central France, on the Bay of Biscay: mainly low-lying
  • postscript point — (unit, text)   The variant of the point used by Postscript, equal to 0.3527777778 mm, or 1/72 inch.
  • psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
  • radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
  • right outer join — outer join
  • saturation point — the point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution, chemical combination, etc.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • suspension point — one of a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • tangential point — a point at which a geometric line, curve, plane, or curved surface touches another curve or surface but does not intersect it
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