26-letter words containing p, o, g, r
- pellagra-preventive factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- personal digital assistant — a handheld computer, often pen-based, that provides especially organizational software, as an appointment calendar, and communications hardware, as a fax modem. Abbreviation: PDA.
- phenylpyruvic oligophrenia — phenylketonuria.
- philosophical anthropology — anthropology (def 4).
- philosophical-anthropology — the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
- post hoc, ergo propter hoc — after this, therefore because of this
- postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
- pour encourager les autres — in order to encourage the others: often used ironically
- prince henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- psychophysiologic disorder — any of a group of disorders, as tension headache, characterized by physical symptoms that are partly induced by emotional factors.
- purely functional language — (language) A language that supports only functional programming and does not allow functions to have side-effects. Program execution consists of evaluation of an expression and all subexpressions are referentially transparent.
- put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- put one's signature to sth — If you put your signature to a document, you sign it as a way of officially showing that you agree with what is written.
- quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
- real-time operating system — (operating system) (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
- remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
- round peg in a square hole — a person in a position, situation, etc. for which he or she is unsuited or unqualified
- search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
- serotonin receptor agonist — A serotonin receptor agonist is any compound that activates serotonin receptors when serotonin is not present.
- simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
- slip through one's fingers — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are in a situation or doing something that does not suit them at all.
- straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
- string processing language — (language) (SPRING)
- super video graphics array — (hardware) (SVGA) A video display standard created by VESA for IBM PC compatible personal computers. The resolution is 800 x 600 4-bit pixels. Each pixel can therefore be one of 16 colours. See Video Graphics Array.
- symbolic assembler program — (language) (SAP) The assembly language for the IBM 704, defined in the late 1950s.
- textured vegetable protein — soya meat; a meat substitute that is made from soy flour
- the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
- three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
- to cut a particular figure — If you say that someone cuts a particular figure, you mean that they appear to other people in the way described.
- to do portrait photography — to be a portrait photographer
- to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
- to put your heads together — If two or more people put their heads together, they talk about a problem they have and try to solve it.
- topological transformation — homeomorphism (def 2).
- traveling salesman problem — any mathematical problem that involves determination of the shortest path through several points.