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15-letter words containing r, o, n, g

  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
  • patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
  • programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
  • progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • psion organiser — (computer)   A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
  • 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.
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
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