16-letter words containing pe
- 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.
- displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
- do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- droves of people — large numbers of people
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
- eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
- european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- expected utility — the weighted average utility of the possible outcomes of a probabilistic situation; the sum or integral of the product of the probability distribution and the utility function
- experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
- experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- field dependence — a psychological trait associated with having an external locus of orientation (contrasted with field independence).
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- for pete's sake! — an expression of frustration, exasperation or annoyance
- four-star petrol — petrol containing lead, formerly sold in the UK
- free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
- freshwater pearl — any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.
- full speed ahead — train: at top speed
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- funeral expenses — Funeral expenses are the costs of organizing and carrying out a funeral.
- gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
- general expenses — miscellaneous expenses
- giuseppe mazzini — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1805–72, Italian patriot and revolutionary.
- go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
- good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
- grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
- grim file reaper — (storage, operating system) (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
- hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
- half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
- headed notepaper — notepaper headed with the name and address of a person or organization
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- high-speed steel — an especially hard, heat-resistant steel for use in lathe tools and for other applications involving high friction and wear.
- high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.