15-letter words containing p, u, l, c
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- popular culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
- pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.