16-letter words that end in p
- acquaintanceship — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
- all over the map — changeable
- american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
- ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
- at the last gasp — at the point of death
- bimetallic strip — a strip consisting of two metals of different coefficients of expansion welded together so that it buckles on heating: used in thermostats, etc
- bird's-nest soup — a rich spicy Chinese soup made from the outer part of the nests of SE Asian swifts of the genus Collocalia
- black-light trap — a trap for insects that uses ultraviolet light as an attractant.
- bloomsbury group — a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals living and working in and around Bloomsbury in London from about 1907 to 1930. Influenced by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, they included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and John Maynard Keynes
- button one's lip — to stop talking: often imperative
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
- commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
- compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
- corporation stop — a cock controlling the flow of water or gas from mains to individual consumers.
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- d-type flip-flop — (hardware) A digital logic device that stores the status of its "D" input whenever its clock input makes a certain transition (low to high or high to low). The output, "Q", shows the currently stored value. Compare J-K flip-flop.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- diazoamino group — the divalent group –N=NNH–.
- discussion group — group assembled to discuss sth
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- 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.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- great soil group — according to a system of classification that originated in Russia, any of several broad groups of soils with common characteristics usually associated with particular climates and vegetation types.
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- house of worship — house of God.
- inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
- inter-packet gap — (networking) A time delay between successive data packets mandated by the network standard for protocol reasons. In Ethernet, the medium has to be "silent" (i.e., no data transfer) for a few microseconds before a node can consider the network idle and start to transmit. This is necessary for fairness reasons. The delay time, which approximately equals the signal propagation time on the cable, allows the "silence" to reach the far end so that all nodes consider the net idle.
- intrapreneurship — The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- linux user group — (body, operating system) (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
- mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
- okefenokee swamp — a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.
- on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
- on the up and up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- on the up-and-up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
- open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
- opportunity shop — a shop selling second-hand goods for charitable funds
- phosphoryl group — the trivalent group ≡P≡O.
- place of worship — religious house: church, temple
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