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18-letter words containing u, n, p, r, c

  • phoenician juniper — a type of juniper that is found in the Mediterranean region
  • picture-in-picture — a feature of some television receivers and similar devices in which one programme is displayed on the full TV screen at the same time as one or more other programmes are displayed in inset windows
  • pitch-and-run shot — chip shot.
  • pleasure principle — an automatic mental drive or instinct seeking to avoid pain and to obtain pleasure.
  • plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • pneumatic conveyor — a tube through which powdered or granular material, such as cement, grain, etc is transported by a flow of air
  • population control — a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, esp in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization
  • porcupine anteater — an echidna or spiny anteater.
  • portal circulation — blood flow in a portal system.
  • pour cold water on — If someone pours cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
  • precious moonstone — moonstone (def 1).
  • present continuous — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the present tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that a present action or event is in progress, being repeated, or of a temporary nature or to express the future.
  • principal argument — the radian measure of the argument between −π and π of a complex number. Compare argument (def 8c).
  • prison rustic work — rustication having a deeply pitted surface.
  • process scheduling — multitasking
  • procrustean string — (programming)   A fixed-length string. If a string value is too long for the allocated space, it is truncated to fit; and if it is shorter, the empty space is padded, usually with space characters. This is an allusion to Procrustes, a legendary robber of ancient Attica. He bound his victims to a bed, and if they were shorter than the bed, he stretched their limbs until they would fit; if their limbs were longer, he lopped them off.
  • product acceptance — the verification or acceptance that a manufactured item meets required specifications or standards and is usable for its purpose
  • production company — an organization which produces, films, plays, television or radio programmes
  • production control — the planning and supervision of manufacturing activities to ensure that goods will be produced on time at the lowest possible cost.
  • production manager — a supervisor of the budget, crew and other details in the production of a film or play
  • productivity bonus — an extra payment made to workers for being more productive or yielding more favourable results than normal
  • property insurance — insurance coverage for land and housing
  • protocol data unit — (PDU) A packet of data passed across a network. The term implies a specific layer of the OSI seven layer model and a specific protocol.
  • provincial council — (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces
  • pseudo-anarchistic — a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
  • public corporation — a corporation, owned and operated by a government, established for the administration of certain public programs.
  • public expenditure — spending by central government, local authorities, and public corporations
  • puerto rico trench — a depression in the ocean floor, N of Puerto Rico: includes deepest part of Atlantic Ocean, 28,374 feet (8648 meters).
  • pulmonic airstream — a current of lung air set in motion by the respiratory muscles in the production of speech.
  • pulp canal therapy — endodontics.
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • puss in the corner — a parlor game for children in which one player in the middle of a room tries to occupy any of the positions along the walls that become vacant as other players dash across to exchange places at a signal.
  • put the mockers on — stop, thwart
  • reciprocating pump — A reciprocating pump is a pump which uses a backward and forward movement to move a fluid.
  • redundancy payment — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • repayment schedule — a document detailing the specific terms of a borrower's loan, such as monthly payment, interest rate, due dates etc
  • reproduction proof — repro proof.
  • resurrection plant — a desert plant, Selaginella lepidophylla, occurring from Texas to South America, having stems that curl inward when dry.
  • room occupancy tax — Room occupancy tax is a tax that guests at a hotel have to pay in order to stay there.
  • rural municipality — any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • scripting language — a language that is used to write scripts, or executable sections of code that automate tasks.
  • self-preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • semiprecious stone — See at semiprecious.
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
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