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15-letter words containing m, e, r, u

  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • petroleum ether — a volatile mixture of the higher alkane hydrocarbons, obtained as a fraction of petroleum and used as a solvent
  • petroleum jelly — sticky substance used as lubricant
  • photomultiplier — an extremely sensitive detector of light and of other radiation, consisting of a tube in which the electrons released by radiation striking a photocathode are accelerated, greatly amplifying the signal obtainable from small quantities of radiation.
  • picture element — (graphics)   (pixel) The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB). Compare voxel.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • pocket computer — palmtop
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • purple trillium — birthroot (def 1).
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
  • quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
  • quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
  • quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • question master — quizmaster.
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
  • reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
  • regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
  • regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
  • remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
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