16-letter words containing d, o, r, m
- premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
- presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
- primary producer — any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
- programme editor — someone responsible for editing, overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- promiscuous mode — (networking) Where a node on a network accepts all packets, regardless of their destination address.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
- pyramidal orchid — a chalk-loving orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, bearing a dense cone-shaped spike of purplish-pink flowers with a long curved spur
- pyroracemic acid — pyruvic acid.
- quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
- radioimmunoassay — a test procedure that integrates immunologic and radiolabeling techniques to measure minute quantities of a substance, as a protein, hormone, or drug, in a given sample of body fluid or tissue.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
- rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
- random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
- read only memory — ROM.
- read-only memory — ROM.
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- redemption yield — the yield produced by a redeemable gilt-edged security taking into account the annual interest it pays and an annualized amount to account for any profit or loss when it is redeemed
- redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- relational model — relational data model
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant tumor made up of striated muscle tissue.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
- room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
- rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
- roskind grammars — (tool) Yacc-based parsers for C and C++ by Jim Roskind. It does not use the %prec and %assoc YACC features so conflicts are never hidden. The C grammar has only one shift-reduce conflict, the C++ grammar has a few more. With byacc it can produce graphical parse trees automatically. The C grammar conforms to ANSI C and the C++ grammar supports cfront 2.0 constructs.
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
- second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis