16-letter words containing po
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- compositionality — The property of being compositional.
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
- corporal's guard — a squad commanded by a corporal
- corporate ladder — the hierarchy of posts with a particular corporation or corporations in general
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- corporate raider — A corporate raider is a person or organization that tries to take control of a company by buying a large number of its shares.
- corporation stop — a cock controlling the flow of water or gas from mains to individual consumers.
- counter-response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
- cutting compound — a mixture, such as oil, water, and soap, used for cooling drills and other cutting tools
- dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
- decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
- depoliticization — The act or process of depoliticizing.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
- disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
- dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
- electrical power — electricity
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- exponential-time — (complexity) The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- file composition — A typesetting language.
- finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
- gregory's powder — a formulation of rhubarb powder used as a laxative or purgative
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- hemicorporectomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure which cuts through the spine and removes the lower half of the body from the waist down.
- hippocratic oath — an oath embodying the duties and obligations of physicians, usually taken by those about to enter upon the practice of medicine.