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15-letter words containing p, u, l, e, c

  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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).
  • 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 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 interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
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