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

  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • preequalization — preemphasis.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • private tuition — instruction, esp that received in a small group or individually, that is arranged and paid for by an individual rather than by the state
  • probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • 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.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
  • puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • 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
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • 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.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • 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.
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
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