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15-letter words containing c, o, m, p, t, r

  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • 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.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • photomacrograph — a photograph showing a subject at actual size or somewhat larger.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pocket computer — palmtop
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
  • primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • projection room — projection booth (def 1).
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
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