16-letter words containing t, r, o, p, a
- public transport — fare-paying travel
- 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.
- pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
- put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
- put pen to paper — If you put pen to paper, you write something.
- quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
- 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.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- re-apportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
- re-appropriation — the act of appropriating.
- re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
- recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- record separator — (character) (RS) ASCII character 30.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- reinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
- 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.
- representational — of or relating to representation.
- repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- reprioritization — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
- rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
- robin's plantain — the rattlesnake weed, Hieracium venosum.
- rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
- roentgenotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays.
- room temperature — a comfortable temperature range indoors, usually considered to be 68 to 77°F (20 to 25°C).
- 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-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- saratoga springs — a city in E New York: health resort; horse races.
- saturation point — the point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution, chemical combination, etc.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
- self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
- separate opinion — an opinion written by a judge separately from other judges, which can either agree or disagree with the opinion written by the majority of judges
- shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- shorthand typing — shorthand and typing