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15-letter words containing i, n, l, e, r

  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
  • proletarization — to proletarianize.
  • propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
  • proportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • propylhexedrine — a colorless, adrenergic, water-soluble liquid, C 1 0 H 2 N, used by inhalation as a nasal decongestant.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • 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
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • railway journey — a journey made by railway train
  • railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • range paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • 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.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
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