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

  • 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.
  • prairie crocus — a spring flower of the buttercup family
  • 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-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
  • 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-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • pre-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precious coral — red coral.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • precociousness — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • precompression — the act of compressing.
  • preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
  • prepositioning — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • preposterously — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
  • prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
  • 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
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
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