14-letter words containing t, r, o, m
- photoperiodism — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
- phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
- platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
- polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- post-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- pour le merite — for merit.
- powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
- pragmatization — the action of putting theory into practice, the process of rendering something more pragmatic
- pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
- pre-enrollment — the act or process of enrolling.
- pre-intimation — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- 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.
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
- primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
- primatological — relating to primatology
- prime computer — (company) (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- pro-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- 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.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.