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15-letter words containing p, i, n, o

  • put into effect — law, rule: enforce
  • put on the ritz — ostentatious or pretentious display.
  • put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
  • pycnodysostosis — a disorder characterized by fragile bones
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quadripartition — A division into four parts.
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
  • rack-and-pinion — of or relating to a mechanism in which a rack engages a pinion: rack-and-pinion steering.
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radioprotection — protection against radiation
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • re-presentation — the act of representing.
  • reapportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
  • reappropriation — the act of appropriating.
  • rear projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
  • rear-projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • 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.
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • room-and-pillar — noting a means of extracting coal or other minerals from underground deposits by first cutting out rooms, then robbing the pillars between them; pillar-and-breast.
  • round-trip time — (RTT) A measure of the current delay on a network, found by timing a packet bounced off some remote host. This can be done with ping -s.
  • roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
  • royal poinciana — a tree, Delonix regia, of the legume family, native to Madagascar, having showy clusters of brilliant scarlet flowers and long, flat, woody pods.
  • sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
  • san luis obispo — a city in W California.
  • san luis potosi — a state in central Mexico. 24,415 sq. mi. (63,235 sq. km).
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • say one's piece — If you say your piece, you say everything you want to say about a particular matter without being interrupted, although people may be wanting to express opposing views.
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
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