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14-letter words containing p, c, r

  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • press clipping — clipping (def 2).
  • 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 cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • 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.
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime computer — (company)   (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
  • prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • principal axis — Optics. a line passing through the center of the surface of a lens or spherical mirror and through the centers of curvature of all segments of the lens or mirror.
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • 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-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • 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.
  • 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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