15-letter words containing t, u, m, e
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- pocket computer — palmtop
- poke mullock at — to ridicule
- polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- posse comitatus — the body of persons that a peace officer of a county is empowered to call upon for assistance in preserving the peace, making arrests, and serving writs.
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- program counter — (hardware) (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
- program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
- protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- purple trillium — birthroot (def 1).
- put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
- put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
- quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- question master — quizmaster.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
- round-trip time — (RTT) A measure of the current delay on a network, found by timing a packet bounced off some remote host. This can be done with ping -s.
- routeing domain — (networking) (US "routing") A set of routers that exchange routeing information within an administrative domain.
- rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
- rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
- rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.