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15-letter words containing l, p

  • 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 focus — focal point (def 1).
  • 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 parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
  • 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 point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
  • 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).
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • prittle-prattle — foolish or idle talk; babble
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pro-nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • 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.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
  • proletarization — to proletarianize.
  • pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
  • propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
  • proportionality — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • proportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • proprietorially — in the manner of a proprietor
  • propyl aldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
  • propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
  • propylhexedrine — a colorless, adrenergic, water-soluble liquid, C 1 0 H 2 N, used by inhalation as a nasal decongestant.
  • propylitization — the alteration of igneous rock to propylite
  • proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
  • provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
  • proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
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