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15-letter words containing e, l, p

  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • precinct police — the police responsible for a district of a city
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • 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.
  • preequalization — preemphasis.
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
  • preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • premillennially — from a premillennial point of view
  • prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
  • prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
  • preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
  • present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
  • president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
  • press the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
  • pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
  • primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
  • principal plane — a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system and at which rays diverging from a focal point are deviated parallel to the axis or at which rays parallel to the axis are deviated to converge to a focal point.
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • prittle-prattle — foolish or idle talk; babble
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • 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).
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
  • proletarization — to proletarianize.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
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