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15-letter words containing p, a, n, d, c

  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
  • non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • non-handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
  • nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
  • nonprecedential — Not precedential.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paid-in capital — finance: payments from investors
  • pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • part and parcel — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • patent medicine — a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • 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.
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • piano accordion — accordion (def 1).
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
  • point-and-click — of or denoting an interface with which the user typically interacts by using a mouse to move the cursor and then clicking on a screen object.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
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