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15-letter words containing c, e, t, r, i

  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • partial eclipse — astronomy
  • participatively — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • past participle — a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
  • pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter principle — any of several satirical “laws” concerning organizational structure, especially one that holds that people tend to be promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • photoelectronic — relating to electronic effects or devices affected by light
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • picture element — (graphics)   (pixel) The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB). Compare voxel.
  • picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • picture-perfect — ideal in appearance,
  • picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • police reporter — a news reporter assigned to cover a police department for newsworthy events.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
  • post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
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