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14-letter words containing p, e, r, o, t

  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
  • postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
  • poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
  • posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • pour le merite — for merit.
  • powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-on reset — (hardware)   (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • pre-enrollment — the act or process of enrolling.
  • pre-generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
  • pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
  • pre-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precipitinogen — Immunology. an antigen that stimulates precipitin production or that reacts with antibody in an immunoprecipitation reaction.
  • precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
  • preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
  • preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
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