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20-letter words containing e, m, t, o, p

  • primary optical area — a point in or toward the upper left-hand corner of a printed page, advertisement, or the like, looked at first in reading. Abbreviation: POA.
  • primary spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
  • prime number theorem — the theorem that the number of prime numbers less than or equal to a given number is approximately equal to the given number divided by its natural logarithm.
  • primitive polynomial — a polynomial that has content equal to 1. Compare content1 (def 11a).
  • procedural agreement — regulations agreed between the parties to collective bargaining, defining the bargaining units, bargaining scope, procedures for collective bargaining, and the facilities to be provided to trade union representatives
  • production agreement — a contract concerning the production or manufacture of something
  • property development — the business of buying land and buildings and then making improvements to them so that their selling price exceeds the price paid for them
  • proprietary medicine — a drug or agent manufactured and distributed under a trade name
  • pseudoparenchymatous — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • psychological moment — the proper or critical time for achieving a desired result: She found the right psychological moment to make her request.
  • psychometric testing — the use of psychometric tests, often as a selection method
  • psychomotor epilepsy — temporal-lobe epilepsy.
  • punch a (time) clock — to insert a timecard into a time clock when coming to or going from work
  • pythagoras's theorem — (mathematics)   The theorem of geometry, named after Pythagoras, of Samos, Ionia, stating that, for a right-angled triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. I.e. if the longest side has length A and the other sides have lengths B and C (in any units), A^2 = B^2 + C^2 (2004-02-12)
  • real-time processing — data-processing by a computer which receives constantly changing data, such as information relating to air-traffic control, travel booking systems, etc, and processes it sufficiently rapidly to be able to control the source of the data
  • regional development — aid-giving to poorer areas or countries
  • retinitis pigmentosa — degeneration of the retina manifested by night blindness and gradual loss of peripheral vision, eventually resulting in tunnel vision or total blindness.
  • rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
  • rotations per minute — revolutions per minute
  • royal leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
  • single point mooring — monobuoy.
  • societal development — the formation and transformation of social life, customs, institutions, etc.
  • some hope/not a hope — If you say 'Some hope', or 'Not a hope', you think there is no possibility that something will happen, although you may want it to happen.
  • sound motion picture — a motion picture with a soundtrack.
  • south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
  • south temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
  • space-time continuum — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
  • subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
  • synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
  • take pity on someone — If you take pity on someone, you feel sorry for them and help them.
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • the metadata company — (company)   A company founded by Jack E. Myers, originally known as Metadata Information Partners. Myers trademarked the word "Metadata" (unhyphenated with initial capital, as opposed to the general term metadata) to represent implementations of his MetaModel and to designate his company. Myers claims that a data and publication search in the summer of 1969 failed to discover any use either of the word "metadata" or "meta data". E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 444 West Ocean Blvd, Suite 1600, Long Beach CA 90802, USA.
  • the price of someone — what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
  • to make up your mind — If you make up your mind or make your mind up, you decide which of a number of possible things you will have or do.
  • to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • toxemia of pregnancy — an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, edema, and the presence of protein in the urine.
  • trimetric projection — a three-dimensional projection with three different linear scales at arbitrary angles.
  • trumpet call for sth — a signal for something
  • under the impression — If you are under the impression that something is the case, you believe that it is the case, usually when it is not actually the case.
  • under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
  • unemployment benefit — an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • uniform crime report — an annual report issued by the FBI that presents data on selected categories of crimes reported to the police. Abbreviation: UCR.
  • upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
  • upper yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park that is 436 m (1430 ft) high
  • vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
  • western roman empire — the westernmost of the two empires created by the division of the later Roman Empire, esp after its final severance from the Eastern Roman Empire (395 ad)
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
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