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14-letter words containing s, t, p

  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-on reset — (hardware)   (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • pre-sterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
  • pre-teenager's — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predeterminism — the belief that everything is predetermined
  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • prepositioning — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • preposterously — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
  • prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
  • 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.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • presentational — of or relating to presentation.
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
  • press fastener — snap fastener.
  • pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
  • pressoreceptor — a proprioceptor responding to changes of blood pressure.
  • pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
  • pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
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