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15-letter words containing d, e, s, r, t, p

  • presence detect — (storage)   A means of identifying a memory chip to the memory controller logic. The original scheme, Parallel Presence Detect (PPD) used a separate pin for each bit of information. The limited number of pins available only gave the density and the speed of the chips. To pass more information, the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) scheme was introduced, storing the information in serial EEPROM with one pin to enable it and one for data.
  • president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
  • presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • 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
  • pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • red spider mite — a plant-feeding mite, Panonychus ulmi, of the family Tetranychidae, which is a serious orchard pest
  • registered port — (networking)   Any TCP or UDP port with a number in the range 1025 to 65535 (i.e. not a well-known port) that is registered with IANA.
  • registered post — a Post Office service by which compensation is paid for loss or damage to mail for which a registration fee has been paid
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • slide projector — device for showing slides
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • 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.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • step-and-repeat — noting or pertaining to a process by which successive photo-offset plates are produced automatically or semiautomatically with great precision: used especially in making plates for multicolor printing.
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
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