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15-letter words containing u, n, c, r

  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
  • 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.
  • pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
  • quarter century — a period of twenty five years
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
  • queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • 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.
  • reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
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