14-letter words containing i, s, o, p, e, r
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- processor time — (software) The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- progressionary — relating to progression
- progressionism — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
- progressionist — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proportionless — lacking proportion; disproportionate
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.