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15-letter words containing i, m, p, r, o

  • nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opposite prompt — the offstage area to the right as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: O.P.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • pellicle mirror — a fixed mirror in a single-lens reflex camera that reflects some of the light entering the lens to the ground-glass view screen while permitting most of the light to pass through to the film.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • photomultiplier — an extremely sensitive detector of light and of other radiation, consisting of a tube in which the electrons released by radiation striking a photocathode are accelerated, greatly amplifying the signal obtainable from small quantities of radiation.
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • piero di cosimo — Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
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