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15-letter words containing r, p, g

  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • prairie village — a city in E Kansas.
  • 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-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-arrangement — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
  • pre-engineering — the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants.
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • primary storage — main memory
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
  • 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 picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • 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
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • 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
  • programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
  • progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
  • progress report — written assessment
  • 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.
  • progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
  • project manager — sb who oversees project plan
  • property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
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