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15-letter words containing p, e, r, g, i, n

  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
  • rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • resist printing — a fabric-printing method in which a dye-resistant substance is applied to certain specified areas of the material prior to immersion in a dye bath and subsequently removed so as to permit the original hue to act as a pattern against the colored ground.
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • screen-printing — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • unprepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
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