17-letter words containing r, m

pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
prealternate molt — the molt by which many birds replace only some and rarely all of the feathers assumed at the prebasic molt, usually occurring prior to breeding.
precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
preemptive strike — preventive war.
premiere danseuse — the leading female dancer in a ballet company.
premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
price maintenance — measures taken by manufacturers to maintain the price charged for their goods by resellers
prima inter pares — (of a female) first among equals.
primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
primary education — junior, elementary schooling
primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
primary processes — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
primary structure — Biochemistry. the basic sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide or protein.
primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
prismatic compass — a hand compass equipped with sights and prisms to permit aiming the instrument at a point and at the same time reading the compass direction of the point.
private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
pro-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
product placement — Product placement is a form of advertising in which a company has its product placed where it can be clearly seen during a film or television programme.
production number — a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.
production system — (programming) A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
professional army — an army of trained soldiers
profile component — attainment targets in different subjects brought together for the general assessment of a pupil
program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
programme planner — someone who creates plans or schedules in regards to their line of work or occupation
programmed camera — a camera with electronic facilities for setting both aperture and shutter speed automatically on the basis of a through-the-lens light value and a given film speed
programming fluid — (jargon) (Or "wirewater") Coffee, unleaded coffee (decaffeinated), Cola, or any caffeinacious stimulant. Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs.
promenade concert — a concert at which some of the audience stand rather than sit
promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
protective system — protectionism (def 1).
proton microscope — a powerful type of microscope that uses a beam of protons, giving high resolution and sharp contrast
pseudo-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
put a dampener on — To put a dampener on something means the same as to put a damper on it.
put on the market — offer for sale
putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
quadratic formula — the formula for determining theroots of a quadratic equation from its coefficients: .
quantum cell wire — (electronics, computing) (Or "quantum wire", "binary wire") Quantum cells arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacent cells with the same orientation are at a low energy state and a change of orientation at one end of a quantum wire propagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However, unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of charge pairs changes, no current flows. Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to as Quantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see quantum dot, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.
quantum chemistry — the application of quantum mechanics to the study of chemical phenomena.
quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
queen's messenger — a person who takes dispatches to or from the sovereign

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