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26-letter words containing p, a, n, t, e

  • parent-teacher association — an organization of teachers and the parents of their students, as within a public school, to promote mutual understanding and to increase the effectiveness of the educational program. Abbreviation: PTA, P.T.A.
  • pellagra-preventive factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
  • period-luminosity relation — the relationship between the period of light variation and of the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars.
  • permanent health insurance — a form of insurance that provides up to 75 per cent of a person's salary, until retirement, in case of prolonged illness or disability
  • personal digital assistant — a handheld computer, often pen-based, that provides especially organizational software, as an appointment calendar, and communications hardware, as a fax modem. Abbreviation: PDA.
  • phenylethylbarbituric acid — phenobarbital.
  • physical transport network — (communications)   (PTN) The actual hardware through which data transfer devices are connected.
  • pin the tail on the donkey — a children's party game in which a blindfolded player, holding a paper tail, is turned around several times before a large picture of a tailless donkey that the player then attempts to locate in order to pin the tail in place.
  • plain old telephone system — Public Switched Telephone Network
  • pokémon exception handling — (programming, humour)   A humourous term for a try-catch exception handling construct with no constraint on which exceptions will be caught, for when you just "Gotta Catch 'Em All." (a slogan used in the Pokémon media empire). Pokémon is a trademark of the Pokémon Company of Japan.
  • political action committee — A political action committee is an organization which campaigns for particular political policies, and that gives money to political parties or candidates who support those policies. The abbreviation PAC is also used.
  • portable forth environment — (language)   (PFE) A highly portable Forth development system based on the ANSI standard for Forth, by Dirk-Uwe Zoller of FHT, Mannheim, Germany. PFE aims to be correct, complete, usable, and simple but it isn't optimised for speed. It supports all dpANS word sets. It runs on Linux, RS/6000, and HP-UX. E-mail: Guido Draheim <[email protected]>.
  • post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
  • postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
  • pour encourager les autres — in order to encourage the others: often used ironically
  • powerpc reference platform — PowerPC Platform
  • prince henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • private finance initiative — (in Britain) a government scheme to encourage private investment in public projects
  • privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
  • professional office system — (messaging)   (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
  • provence-alpes-côte d'azur — metropolitan region of SE France: 12,124 sq mi (31,401 sq km); pop. 4,258,000; chief city, Marseille
  • public-liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against risks involving liability to the public for damages arising from negligence.
  • public-service corporation — a private or quasi-private corporation chartered to provide an essential commodity or service to the public.
  • pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
  • purely functional language — (language)   A language that supports only functional programming and does not allow functions to have side-effects. Program execution consists of evaluation of an expression and all subexpressions are referentially transparent.
  • put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
  • put one's signature to sth — If you put your signature to a document, you sign it as a way of officially showing that you agree with what is written.
  • quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
  • real-time operating system — (operating system)   (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
  • remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
  • repetitive strain disorder — overuse strain injury
  • replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
  • retained object complement — an object complement that is kept in its predicative position following the verb when the verb is transformed into the passive voice, as genius in He was considered a genius from (They) considered him a genius.
  • ritz combination principle — the principle that the frequencies of lines in atomic spectra can be represented as differences of a smaller number of terms, all characteristic of the emitting system, interpreted in quantum theory as the emission of exactly one photon in a transition between energy levels.
  • sans peur et sans reproche — without fear and without reproach: said originally of the French knight, the Seigneur de Bayard.
  • scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
  • search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
  • serotonin receptor agonist — A serotonin receptor agonist is any compound that activates serotonin receptors when serotonin is not present.
  • simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
  • ssh file transfer protocol — (networking)   (SFTP) A version of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using an encrypted network connection provided by Secure Shell (SSH), usually SSH 2. The SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files, making it more like a remote file system protocol. SFTP clients can resume interrupted transfers, get directory listings and remove remote files. SFTP has largely replaced Secure Copy (SCP).
  • stamped addressed envelope — A stamped addressed envelope is an envelope with a stamp on it and your own name and address, which you send to someone so that something can be sent back to you. The abbreviation s.a.e. is also used.
  • straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
  • string processing language — (language)   (SPRING)
  • tabulating machine company — (company)   The company founded in 1896 by Herman Hollerith to exploit his invention of the punched card. It became part of IBM in 1924.
  • take someone's temperature — If you take someone's temperature you use an instrument called a thermometer to measure the temperature of their body in order to see if they are ill.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • technological unemployment — unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
  • temperature-humidity index — a number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature readings by 0.4 and adding 15, with 65 assumed as the highest comfortable index. Abbreviation: T.H.I.
  • textured vegetable protein — soya meat; a meat substitute that is made from soy flour
  • the department of the navy — the United States federal department that supports and leads the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps
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