15-letter words containing p, r, i, a
- non-repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- nonincorporated — Not incorporated.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- nonmetropolitan — Not metropolitan.
- nonpartisanship — The quality of not being partisan, of remaining politically independent.
- nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nonproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- northern paiute — a member of an American Indian people of Nevada, Oregon, and California, allied to the Paiute.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- 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.
- oil tanker pier — An oil tanker pier is a structure over water where oil tankers can stop and load or unload.
- 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
- 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
- oriental carpet — Oriental rug.
- 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
- orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overapplication — excessive application
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- overexpectation — excessive expectation
- overopinionated — too opinionated
- overpreparation — the act or instance of preparing excessively