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15-letter words containing p, r, a, d

  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
  • interpenetrated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpenetrate.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
  • jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • lombardy poplar — a poplar, Populus nigra italica, having a columnar manner of growth, with branches erect and parallel.
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • lords spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • malappropriated — misused or mishandled
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
  • mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
  • mermaid's purse — the horny or leathery egg case of certain cartilaginous fishes, as skates.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
  • modulo operator — (mathematics)   (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
  • moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
  • morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
  • mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
  • nondepartmental — not limited to or related to a specific department
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
  • nonprecedential — Not precedential.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
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