16-letter words containing pa
- kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
- knitting pattern — a pattern that tells you how to knit a garment or another object
- laparoscopically — By means of laparoscopy.
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
- led page printer — LED printer
- left parenthesis — (character) "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
- legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
- legal separation — judicial separation.
- live in the past — If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.
- lower palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
- lump sum payment — money: one-off payment
- macapagal arroyo — Gloria
- magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
- mamihlapinatapai — A situation in which all participants want something to be done, but none want to do it.
- marriage partner — a person you are married to
- matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
- media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
- mental telepathy — telepathy.
- mercantile paper — commercial paper.
- methyl parathion — a synthetic pesticide, C 8 H 1 0 NO 5 PS, used in the control of mites and various insects, as aphids, boll weevils, and cutworms.
- microangiopathic — Of, pertaining to or accompanied by microangiopathy.
- micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
- mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
- mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
- municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
- native companion — brolga.
- neuroarthropathy — (medicine) Any disease of a joint that is associated with a disease of the nervous system.
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
- newspaper report — a report published in a newspaper
- nomination paper — a document containing signatures guaranteeing the proposal of somebody as a candidate in an election
- non-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
- non-repatriation — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- noncompassionate — Not compassionate.
- nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
- nonparticipation — absence of participation: Nonparticipation of citizens in political matters hampers efforts toward better government.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
- opaque projector — a machine for projecting opaque objects, as books, on a screen, by means of reflected light.
- open parenthesis — left parenthesis
- ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
- orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
- 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.
- packet switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.