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15-letter words containing e, p, i, c, o, n

  • police presence — attendance or proximity of police officers
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
  • position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • post-conception — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
  • post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • precinct police — the police responsible for a district of a city
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconstruction — the act or art of constructing.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • 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).
  • projection room — projection booth (def 1).
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • protectionistic — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
  • protein content — amount of protein in a food
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudoscientist — a person who practises pseudoscience or who falsely assumes the title of scientist
  • psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • put into effect — law, rule: enforce
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
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