15-letter words containing a, e, g, n
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- pre-arrangement — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
- pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
- prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- program counter — (hardware) (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
- programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psion organiser — (computer) A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- 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.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- quinquagenarian — 50 years of age.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- ramjet (engine) — a jet engine, without moving parts, in which the air for oxidizing the fuel is continuously compressed by being rammed into the inlet by the high velocity of the aircraft
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reaction engine — an engine that produces power as a reaction to the momentum given to gases ejected from it, as a rocket or jet engine.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- reentrant angle — in a polygon, an interior angle greater than 180°, with its point turning back into the figure rather than out from it
- refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions