15-letter words containing o, n, c, g
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- overcontrolling — excessively controlling
- oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- palynologically — from a palynological point of view
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- phytopathogenic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phytopathogen
- pickling onions — small onions suitable for pickling
- pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
- pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
- pop one's clogs — If you say that someone has popped their clogs, you mean that they have died.
- potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
- printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
- 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.
- procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
- prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- 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.
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- 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.
- receiving order — court order
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.