15-letter words containing m, i, n, t, e, r
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- presentationism — the doctrine that in perception, or in all forms of knowledge, there is an immediate awareness of the things perceived.
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preview monitor — (in a television studio control room) a picture monitor used for inspecting a picture source before it is switched to transmission
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- projection room — projection booth (def 1).
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- 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-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
- pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- question master — quizmaster.
- radiogoniometer — a device used to detect the direction of radio waves, consisting of a coil that is free to rotate within two fixed coils at right angles to each other
- radiogoniometry — the science of detecting the direction of radio waves
- 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
- ramjet (engine) — a jet engine, without moving parts, in which the air for oxidizing the fuel is continuously compressed by being rammed into the inlet by the high velocity of the aircraft
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- re-entry permit — a permit required to return to certain countries after leaving for an extended period of time
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- reapportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- recontamination — the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- recreation room — (in a home or public building) a room for informal entertaining, as for dancing, games, cards, etc.
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- redetermination — the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.
- 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.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- relational dbms — relational database
- relaxation time — the time that it takes for an exponentially decaying quantity, as radioactive particles or transient electrical currents, to decrease to 36.8 percent of its initial value.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- renormalization — the action or process of normalizing or causing to conform to a norm or normal state again
- resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
- retained income — retained earnings.
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- retirement home — care facility for elderly people
- retirement plan — a systematic plan made and kept by an individual for setting aside income for his or her future retirement.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
- risk assessment — the evaluation of the possible risks in a product,situation, activity or course of action
- risk management — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.