26-letter words containing p, t, e
- provence-alpes-côte d'azur — metropolitan region of SE France: 12,124 sq mi (31,401 sq km); pop. 4,258,000; chief city, Marseille
- public prosecutor's office — the legal department that is responsible for putting people on trial on behalf of the government and people of a particular country
- public-liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against risks involving liability to the public for damages arising from negligence.
- public-service corporation — a private or quasi-private corporation chartered to provide an essential commodity or service to the public.
- pulse repetition frequency — the number of pulses per second in a system of pulse transmission. Abbreviation: PRF.
- pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
- purely functional language — (language) A language that supports only functional programming and does not allow functions to have side-effects. Program execution consists of evaluation of an expression and all subexpressions are referentially transparent.
- put a bug in someone's ear — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- put one's signature to sth — If you put your signature to a document, you sign it as a way of officially showing that you agree with what is written.
- put sb out of their misery — If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.
- put the fluence on someone — to apply hypnotic or mystical influence to a person
- put your best foot forward — do your best
- quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
- real-time operating system — (operating system) (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. RTOS is not a specific product but a class of operating systems.
- refinery’s own consumption — Refinery's own consumption is the gas and fuel which is burnt to operate the units in a refinery and generate electricity and steam.
- remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
- repetitive strain disorder — overuse strain injury
- replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
- retained object complement — an object complement that is kept in its predicative position following the verb when the verb is transformed into the passive voice, as genius in He was considered a genius from (They) considered him a genius.
- ritz combination principle — the principle that the frequencies of lines in atomic spectra can be represented as differences of a smaller number of terms, all characteristic of the emitting system, interpreted in quantum theory as the emission of exactly one photon in a transition between energy levels.
- sans peur et sans reproche — without fear and without reproach: said originally of the French knight, the Seigneur de Bayard.
- scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
- search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
- senior chief petty officer — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a chief petty officer and below a master chief petty officer. Abbreviation: SCPO.
- serotonin receptor agonist — A serotonin receptor agonist is any compound that activates serotonin receptors when serotonin is not present.
- service discovery protocol — (protocol) (SDP) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack that allows devices to connect to other services.
- simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
- slip through one's fingers — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- ssh file transfer protocol — (networking) (SFTP) A version of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using an encrypted network connection provided by Secure Shell (SSH), usually SSH 2. The SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files, making it more like a remote file system protocol. SFTP clients can resume interrupted transfers, get directory listings and remove remote files. SFTP has largely replaced Secure Copy (SCP).
- stamped addressed envelope — A stamped addressed envelope is an envelope with a stamp on it and your own name and address, which you send to someone so that something can be sent back to you. The abbreviation s.a.e. is also used.
- straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
- string processing language — (language) (SPRING)
- sweep someone off his feet — to inspire strong and immediate enthusiasm, love, etc. in someone
- system product interpreter — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
- tabulating machine company — (company) The company founded in 1896 by Herman Hollerith to exploit his invention of the punched card. It became part of IBM in 1924.
- take priority/has priority — If something takes priority or has priority over other things, it is regarded as being more important than them and is dealt with first.
- take someone's temperature — If you take someone's temperature you use an instrument called a thermometer to measure the temperature of their body in order to see if they are ill.
- take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
- technological unemployment — unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.
- temperature-humidity index — a number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature readings by 0.4 and adding 15, with 65 assumed as the highest comfortable index. Abbreviation: T.H.I.
- textured vegetable protein — soya meat; a meat substitute that is made from soy flour
- the department of the navy — the United States federal department that supports and leads the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps
- the liberal democrat party — a political party in Britain which was formed from a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
- the second epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which warns against teachers who claim that Jesus Christ did not come to Earth in the flesh
- the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
- thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
- three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
- to be in raptures over sth — be highly delighted with
- to be made public property — to become known to everyone
- to be pressed into service — To press someone or something into service means to use them temporarily for a particular purpose.