16-letter words containing t, r, o, m
- prismatic colors — the colors of the visible spectrum produced by passing white light through a prism; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- program director — a chief executive responsible for selecting and scheduling programs.
- programmatically — by using a computer program: You can set the value in each field programmatically with a simple algorithm. The background shapes can be programmatically drawn and animated.
- programme editor — someone responsible for editing, overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
- progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- 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.
- property company — a business that makes money by buying, selling, and renting out land and houses
- 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.
- protection money — law: criminal fee
- proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
- 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.
- proxime accessit — the person coming next after the winner in a competitive examination or an academic prize giving; runner-up
- pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
- quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- radium emanation — (formerly) radon.
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- 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.
- random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
- rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
- re-apportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
- re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
- reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- redemption yield — the yield produced by a redeemable gilt-edged security taking into account the annual interest it pays and an annualized amount to account for any profit or loss when it is redeemed
- refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
- relational model — relational data model
- remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
- remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- remote job entry — (operating system) (RJE) A system, widely used in the mid/late 1960s, for submitting jobs to mainframes like the IBM 360 under OS/MFT. Communication with the computer operator was via the keyboard and later via CRTs.
- replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- robert t. morris — The creator of the "Internet Worm" that wreaked havoc on many Internet systems for a day or two. Morris, the son of an NSA spook, did some jail time for releasing the worm.
- romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
- romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
- room methodology — Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
- room temperature — a comfortable temperature range indoors, usually considered to be 68 to 77°F (20 to 25°C).
- root mean square — the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers in a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: rms.
- root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
- rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth