15-letter words containing e, n, t, r, y
- presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
- proportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
- quarter century — a period of twenty five years
- quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- re-entry permit — a permit required to return to certain countries after leaving for an extended period of time
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
- ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
- run-time system — (programming) (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- seven-year itch — scabies.