15-letter words containing i, n, t, e, r, c
- 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
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- 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.
- preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
- 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)
- precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
- 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.
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- printed circuit — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- 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.
- 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.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- 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
- 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
- quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- radioprotection — protection against radiation
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.