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15-letter words containing p, r, i, c

  • a cracking pace — If you say that someone or something is moving at a cracking pace, you mean that they are moving very quickly.
  • accordion pleat — one of a series of narrow, evenly spaced parallel pleats with alternating raised and recessed folds set into cloth or other material, usually by a commercial pleating machine.
  • achromatophilia — the property of having little or no affinity for stains.
  • actinopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Actinopterygii, a group of bony fishes.
  • action reporter — a news reporter who reports to the public on matters of special interest to the consumer.
  • acyclic terpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • adjective group — An adjective group or adjectival group is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football'. An adjective group can also consist simply of an adjective.
  • adygei republic — a constituent republic of SW Russia, bordering on the Caucasus Mountains: chiefly agricultural but with some mineral resources. Capital: Maikop. Pop: 447 000 (2002). Area: 7600 sq km (2934 sq miles)
  • airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
  • aix-en-provence — a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 145 721 (2006)
  • alberta clipper — (in Canada) an area of low pressure that forms in winter near the Rocky Mountains
  • all-risk policy — An all-risk policy is an insurance policy that covers all loss or damage however it is caused, apart from any stated exceptions.
  • allotriomorphic — (of minerals) not having their own regular shape (as determined by their internal structure) but being shaped instead by adjacent minerals
  • alopecia areata — loss of hair in circumscribed patches.
  • alpine accentor — a small bird of the sparrow family, Prunella collaris, found especially in mountain regions of S Europe and Asia
  • american copper — a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Symbol: Cu; atomic weight: 63.54; atomic number: 29; specific gravity: 8.92 at 20°C.
  • american empire — a style of American furniture making and related crafts from c1815 to c1840, corresponding to the French Empire and late English Regency styles.
  • american ipecac — a plant, Gillenia stipulata, of the rose family, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having white flowers on long stalks.
  • amphitheatrical — Having some of the characteristics of an amphitheatre.
  • anamorphic lens — a component in the optical system of a film projector for converting standard 35mm film images into wide-screen format
  • anchorage point — a point to which something such as the straps securing a childseat can be safely attached
  • aneroid capsule — a box or chamber of thin metal, partially exhausted of air, used in the aneroid barometer and pressure altimeter.
  • angina pectoris — a sudden intense pain in the chest, often accompanied by feelings of suffocation, caused by momentary lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle
  • anisotropically — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
  • annular eclipse — an eclipse of the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
  • antarctic plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising Antarctica and adjacent ocean basins (the South Indian, Southeast Pacific, and Atlantic-Indian basins) and bounded on the north by the Nazca, South American, African, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plates.
  • anthropocentric — regarding man as the most important and central factor in the universe
  • anthropological — the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
  • anthropometrics — the science of measuring the size and proportions of the human body (called anthropometry), especially as applied to the design of furniture and machines.
  • anthropomorphic — Anthropomorphic means relating to the idea that an animal, a god, or an object has feelings or characteristics like those of a human being.
  • anthropopsychic — the attribution of consciousness to divine beings and nature
  • anti-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • anti-corruption — the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
  • anti-patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
  • anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • antiaphrodisiac — something that represses sexual desire
  • anticardiolipin — (medicine, immunology) Directed against cardiolipin.
  • anticlinal trap — An anticlinal trap is a structural trap which is closed by an anticline (= an arch-shaped fold in rock, in which rock layers are upwardly convex).
  • antiperistaltic — reversed peristaltic action of the intestines, by which their contents are carried upward.
  • apical meristem — meristem at the apex of a root or shoot.
  • apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
  • apostolic vicar — vicar apostolic.
  • apostrophically — (rhetoric) Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
  • approach lights — lights on the runway that guide planes coming in to land
  • approachability — capable of being approached; accessible.
  • arc de triomphe — the triumphal arch in Paris begun by Napoleon I to commemorate his victories of 1805–6 and completed in 1836

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