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15-letter words containing p, r, e, a, c

  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
  • proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
  • pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radioprotection — protection against radiation
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • 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.
  • recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • reincorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
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