15-letter words containing p, e, r, n
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- creeping fescue — red fescue.
- creeping jennie — moneywort.
- creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
- crescent-shaped — having the shape of a crescent
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- cryoprotectants — Plural form of cryoprotectant.
- culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- dancing partner — one of a pair of dancers
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
- defunct process — zombie process
- departmentalism — division into departments, esp when resulting in impaired efficiency
- departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- depletion layer — a region at the interface between dissimilar zones of conductivity in a semiconductor, in which there are few charge carriers
- depressor nerve — any nerve that when stimulated produces a fall in blood pressure by dilating the arteries or lowering the heartbeat
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disimprisonment — the act of disimprisoning
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- disproportioned — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
- dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
- dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
- drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.