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16-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n

  • progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
  • proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
  • provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
  • pseudo-isidorian — of or relating to the collection of documents of the 9th century a.d. that consist chiefly of the Decretals, attributed to Isidore, archbishop of Seville, a.d. 600–36, and that were rejected as spurious in the 15th century.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • 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.
  • pull the strings — be in control
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • purple sandpiper — a sandpiper, Calidris maritima, of arctic regions of the New and Old World, having in winter a slate-gray back with purplish reflections.
  • put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
  • pyloric stenosis — an abnormal narrowing of the valve at the outlet from the stomach, preventing normal passage of food into the small intestine.
  • radiotransparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
  • reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
  • replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • repossession man — someone employed to take back or repossess property, esp due to nonpayment of money due under a hire-purchase agreement
  • representational — of or relating to representation.
  • representatively — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • residence permit — permission allowing someone to legally reside in a country
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • restoring spring — a spring so located that it returns a displaced part to its normal position.
  • restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
  • run-time support — run-time system
  • saint peter port — a port and resort in the Channel Islands: the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, on the E coast of the island of Guernsey. Pop: 28 310 (2001)
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
  • scarlet eggplant — a hairy, prickly plant, Solanum integrifolium, of the nightshade family, native to Africa, grown for its furrowed, nearly round, scarlet or yellow ornamental fruit.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
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