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15-letter words containing a, d, p, e, r

  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radioprotection — protection against radiation
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • sidereal period — the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spraddle-legged — moving with or having the legs wide apart: a spraddle-legged walk.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
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