15-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
- probationership — the position of a probationer
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
- process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- 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 notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- progress report — written assessment
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- projection room — projection booth (def 1).
- projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- proletarization — to proletarianize.
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
- property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- proportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- proprietorially — in the manner of a proprietor
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
- protectionistic — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protein content — amount of protein in a food
- proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
- protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
- 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-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united