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

  • presentational — of or relating to presentation.
  • press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
  • pressoreceptor — a proprioceptor responding to changes of blood pressure.
  • pressure group — an interest group that attempts to influence legislation through the use of lobbying techniques and propaganda.
  • pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
  • pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • pretensionless — without pretension
  • pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • prime computer — (company)   (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
  • prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • print reporter — a reporter who works for a newspaper or magazine
  • printing error — a misprint or misspelling in a text
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • priority queue — (programming)   A data structure with three operations: insert a new item, return the highest priority item, and remove the highest priority item. The obvious way to represent priority queues is by maintaining a sorted list but this can make the insert operation very slow. Greater efficiency can be achieved by using heaps.
  • prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • pro-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
  • probable error — a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • process camera — a large camera used in the photographic processes involved in the printing industry
  • process cheese — a cheese made by heating and blending together several natural cheeses with an emulsifying agent
  • process colour — any of the four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) used in process printing
  • process server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
  • process-server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • processed peas — peas that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
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