16-letter words containing m, c, l, a, r
- phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- porcelain enamel — a glass coating, made to adhere to a metal or another enamel by fusion.
- powerpc platform — (architecture, standard) (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
- precontemplation — the act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
- primary election — primary (def 15a).
- primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
- prismatic colors — the colors of the visible spectrum produced by passing white light through a prism; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
- programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- pyramidal orchid — a chalk-loving orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, bearing a dense cone-shaped spike of purplish-pink flowers with a long curved spur
- quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- real-time euclid — Real-time language, restriction to time-bounded constructs. ["Real-Time Euclid: A Language for Reliable Real-Time Systems", E. Kligerman et al, IEEE Trans Software Eng SE-12(9):941-1986-09-949].
- real-time pascal — (language) A later name for Pascal-80 by RC International, Denmark.
- replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
- replacement part — a part of (an engine, device, etc) used to replace or substitute an older or broken part
- richard stallman — (person) Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- royal commission — (in Britain) a body set up by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister to gather information about the operation of existing laws or to investigate any social, educational, or other matter. The commission has prescribed terms of reference and reports to the government on how any change might be achieved
- sacrificial lamb — If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.
- scarlet clematis — a slightly woody vine, Clematis texensis, of Texas, having bluish-green leaves, plumed fruit, and solitary, urn-shaped, scarlet-to-pink flowers.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- source materials — publications from which information is obtained
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
- tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
- telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.