14-letter words containing s, e, c, r
- precociousness — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- precompression — the act of compressing.
- preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
- press clipping — clipping (def 2).
- press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
- pressoreceptor — a proprioceptor responding to changes of blood pressure.
- pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- process camera — a large camera used in the photographic processes involved in the printing industry
- process cheese — a cheese made by heating and blending together several natural cheeses with an emulsifying agent
- process colour — any of the four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) used in process printing
- process server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
- process-server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- processed peas — peas that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- processor farm — (computer, parallel) A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
- processor time — (software) The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.