15-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
- non prosequitur — a judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit when the plaintiff does not appear in court to prosecute it.
- non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- non-improvement — an act of improving or the state of being improved.
- non-interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
- non-penetrative — (of sexual activity) not involving penetration by the penis
- non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
- noncontemporary — not contemporary
- nondepartmental — not limited to or related to a specific department
- nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- nonprescription — (of drugs, medication, etc.) legally available for purchase without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- nonstereoscopic — Not stereoscopic.
- northern paiute — a member of an American Indian people of Nevada, Oregon, and California, allied to the Paiute.
- northern parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- 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.
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
- open enrollment — open admissions.
- open government — the doctrine that all government business should be open to regulation and scrutiny by the public
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
- opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
- opposite prompt — the offstage area to the right as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: O.P.
- optical printer — a film printer used in making optical effects, consisting basically of a camera that photographs the image with special lenses to enlarge, reduce, distort, etc., and a projector that transfers the image to the print stock, as distinguished from a contact printer.
- optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- optoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
- ordered n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- orestes complex — Psychoanalysis. an unconscious desire of a son to kill his mother.