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14-letter words containing o, p, e, r

  • post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
  • post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • post-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
  • postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
  • poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
  • posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pour le merite — for merit.
  • powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-on reset — (hardware)   (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
  • prairie crocus — a spring flower of the buttercup family
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
  • pre-conference — a meeting for consultation or discussion: a conference between a student and his adviser.
  • pre-copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
  • pre-depression — the act of depressing.
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
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