15-letter words containing p, e, r, i, g, a
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- raster graphics — (graphics) Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
- reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
- 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.
- 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.
- ribier (grapes) — a large, black variety of European or Californian table grape (Vitis vinifera)
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- rite de passage — rite of passage.
- rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- 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.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- 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.
- spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- 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
- spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
- 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.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- target practice — practice at hitting the target in a sport such as archery or shooting
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- the grim reaper — death
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- 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.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.