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

  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-concentrate — to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus: to concentrate one's attention on a problem; to concentrate the rays of the sun with a lens.
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • precinct police — the police responsible for a district of a city
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconstruction — the act or art of constructing.
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • 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
  • principal point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procrastination — the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention: She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • 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.
  • progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • projection room — projection booth (def 1).
  • projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
  • pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
  • prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
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