15-letter words containing p, r, o, a, g, t
- preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
- prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- primary storage — main memory
- pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
- prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- 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.
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- 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
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- pyrophotography — the production of pyrophotographs
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- repeating group — (database) Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
- rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- roentgenoparent — visible by means of x-rays.
- sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
- scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
- spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
- telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- typographically — of or relating to typography.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.