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15-letter words containing m, e, t, r, o, p

  • open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opposite prompt — the offstage area to the right as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: O.P.
  • orestes complex — Psychoanalysis. an unconscious desire of a son to kill his mother.
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
  • overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • 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
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • 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.
  • piece to camera — a TV report in which a reporter is filmed saying something
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • pocket computer — palmtop
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • position isomer — any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.
  • post-retirement — the act of retiring, withdrawing, or leaving; the state of being retired.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
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