16-letter words containing t, o, n, i, p
- pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
- pro-intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- 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
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- 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.
- project guardian — (project, security) A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
- project planning — project management
- projected window — a casement window in which the inner end of the sash slides along a track on the sill as the sash swings outward.
- projection booth — a soundproof compartment in a theater where a motion-picture projector is housed and from which the picture is projected on the screen.
- projection paper — sensitized paper for recording a projected image.
- projection print — a print made by the projection of an image onto sensitized paper.
- projective plane — (mathematics) The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
- prolonged-action — sustained-release.
- promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
- proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
- proprietary name — a name of a product or service that is protected by a patent, copyright, or trademark and cannot be used by another party for commercial purposes without permission of the registered owner or licensee.
- prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
- protection money — law: criminal fee
- protection order — a legal instruction by a court directing a person not to harm or harass a particular individual
- protection ratio — the minimum acceptable ratio between the amplitudes of a wanted radio or television broadcast signal and any interfering signal
- protestant ethic — work ethic.
- proto-algonquian — the unattested parent language from which the Algonquian languages are descended.
- proxima centauri — the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
- pseudo-scientist — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pseudocopulation — pollination of plants, esp orchids, by male insects while attempting to mate with flowers that resemble the female insect
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- 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
- publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
- pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
- put a sock in it — be quiet!
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
- put someone wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- put the question — to require members of a deliberative assembly to vote on a motion presented
- pyloric stenosis — an abnormal narrowing of the valve at the outlet from the stomach, preventing normal passage of food into the small intestine.
- pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
- radiotransparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- re-apportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
- re-appropriation — the act of appropriating.
- recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
- reception centre — A reception centre is a place where people who have no homes or are being looked after by the government can live until somewhere else is found for them to live.