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15-letter words containing s, e, n, r

  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • presence detect — (storage)   A means of identifying a memory chip to the memory controller logic. The original scheme, Parallel Presence Detect (PPD) used a separate pin for each bit of information. The limited number of pins available only gave the density and the speed of the chips. To pass more information, the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) scheme was introduced, storing the information in serial EEPROM with one pin to enable it and one for data.
  • present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
  • present perfect — (in English) the tense form consisting of the present tense of have with a past participle and noting that the action of the verb was completed prior to the present, as I have finished.
  • presentationism — the doctrine that in perception, or in all forms of knowledge, there is an immediate awareness of the things perceived.
  • preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
  • preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
  • president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
  • presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • pressure center — the central point of an atmospheric high or low.
  • pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
  • price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • printer's error — an error introduced into typeset copy by the compositor, so that the printer cannot charge for correcting it. Abbreviation: P.E., p.e.
  • prior restraint — a court order banning publication of unpublished material.
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
  • prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
  • prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • 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.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • 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.
  • promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
  • properispomenon — a word with an accentuated penultimate syllable that is indicated by means of a circumflex
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
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