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15-letter words containing i, p, r, o, c, l

  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • peculiar people — a small sect of faith healers founded in London in 1838, having no ministers or external organization
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • 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.
  • perchloric acid — a colorless, syrupy hygroscopic liquid, HClO 4 , an acid of chlorine containing one more oxygen atom than chloric acid: used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • philanthropical — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • 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.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photoelectronic — relating to electronic effects or devices affected by light
  • phototropically — in a phototropic manner
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pleochroic halo — a dark-colored, microscopic ring around a minute radioactive particle in certain mineral crystals, used in estimating the age of the rocks containing these crystals
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • police presence — attendance or proximity of police officers
  • police reporter — a news reporter assigned to cover a police department for newsworthy events.
  • policy priority — the most important idea or plan that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polish corridor — a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
  • political party — an organization of people who share the same views about the way power should be used in a country or society (through government, policy-making, etc)
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • precinct police — the police responsible for a district of a city
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prince of walesPrince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • principal point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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).
  • pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
  • proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
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