15-letter words containing n, e, g, r, i, t
- oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
- omnium gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- omnium-gatherum — a miscellaneous collection.
- on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
- operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- origination fee — a fee charged by a lender for evaluating and processing a loan application, usually a percentage of the face value of the loan.
- otaheite orange — a small citrus bush, Citrus limonia otaitensis, having fragrant flowers and small orange fruit, often cultivated as a houseplant.
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- over-irrigation — the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- overcontrolling — excessively controlling
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
- parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
- parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
- passenger train — railway train that carries people
- patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
- patent engineer — a person who draws up applications for patents
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
- prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
- 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
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- 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
- reaction engine — an engine that produces power as a reaction to the momentum given to gases ejected from it, as a rocket or jet engine.
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls