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16-letter words containing s, c, i, o, r, t

  • picture postcard — postcard (def 1).
  • pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • poitou-charentes — a region of W central France, on the Bay of Biscay: mainly low-lying
  • police inspector — rank of police officer in the UK
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • post-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
  • post-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • postscript point — (unit, text)   The variant of the point used by Postscript, equal to 0.3527777778 mm, or 1/72 inch.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • practical reason — (in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.
  • practice session — a period of training that takes place over a set period of time, for example an hour or several hours
  • pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
  • pre-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • precinct station — a police station for police responsible for a district of a city
  • prescription pad — a pad of prescriptions used by doctors, etc
  • prespecification — the act of specifying.
  • prismatic colors — the colors of the visible spectrum produced by passing white light through a prism; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
  • process industry — business of treating raw materials
  • process printing — a method of printing almost any color by using a limited number of separate color plates, as yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, in combination.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • production costs — the costs used in manufacturing a product
  • proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
  • prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
  • prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • proxime accessit — the person coming next after the winner in a competitive examination or an academic prize giving; runner-up
  • pseudo-patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
  • pseudo-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • pyloric stenosis — an abnormal narrowing of the valve at the outlet from the stomach, preventing normal passage of food into the small intestine.
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • quasi-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
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