15-letter words containing c, o, r, n, i, t
- 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.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- projection room — projection booth (def 1).
- pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protectionistic — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protein content — amount of protein in a food
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.