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21-letter words containing p, r, o, c, n, f

  • prefect of discipline — a senior master in a Jesuit school or college
  • professional services — (job)   A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.
  • profit-sharing scheme — a scheme employing profit-sharing; a system in which a portion of the net profit of a business is distributed to its employees, usually in proportion to their wages or their length of service
  • purple-fringed orchid — either of two orchids, Habenaria fimbriata or H. psycodes, of eastern North America, having a cluster of fragrant purple flowers with a fringed lip.
  • purple-fringed orchis — either of two North American orchids (Habenaria psycodes and H. fimbriata) with purple-fringed flowers
  • reinforcement therapy — a behavior modification technique in which appropriate behavior is strengthened through systematic reinforcement.
  • saponification number — the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to saponify one gram of a given ester, especially a glyceride.
  • south pacific current — an ocean current that flows E in the South Pacific Ocean parallel to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • sun protection factor — SPF.
  • surface of projection — the surface upon which an image or a set of points is projected.
  • the acting profession — actors considered as a group
  • the origin of species — (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) a treatise (1859) by Charles Darwin setting forth his theory of evolution.
  • the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
  • topgallant forecastle — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; forecastle deck.
  • xfree86 project, inc. — (operating system, graphics)   A non-profit organisation that produces XFree86, a freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System that runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems and OS/2. The XFree86 Project has traditionally focused on Intel x86 based platforms (hence the "86"), but the current release supports other platforms.
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