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15-letter words containing ce

  • presence detect — (storage)   A means of identifying a memory chip to the memory controller logic. The original scheme, Parallel Presence Detect (PPD) used a separate pin for each bit of information. The limited number of pins available only gave the density and the speed of the chips. To pass more information, the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) scheme was introduced, storing the information in serial EEPROM with one pin to enable it and one for data.
  • pressure center — the central point of an atmospheric high or low.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
  • primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • processed foods — foods that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quarter century — a period of twenty five years
  • quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
  • queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
  • quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • receiving order — court order
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • recertification — the act of certifying.
  • reconcentration — the act of concentrating again.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • record producer — sb who manages music recordings
  • red blood cells — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • reference frame — frame of reference (def 2).
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • reference strip — a strip of film used to help calculate and monitor the exposing and processing of photographs
  • register office — building where civil records are kept
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • renaissance man — a cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields.
  • rescue services — emergency services comprising employees, equipment, etc, which serve to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
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