15-letter words containing p, r, e, a, d, o
- herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- 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
- joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- 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."
- 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.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- 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-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- 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.
- metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
- 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
- non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
- non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- nondepartmental — not limited to or related to a specific department
- nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
- odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
- olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orphaned i-node — (operating system) /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ [Unix] 1. A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a file system.
- orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.