15-letter words containing gr
- phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
- phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
- phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
- photolithograph — Also, photolithoprint [foh-tuh-lith-uh-print] /ˌfoʊ təˈlɪθ əˌprɪnt/ (Show IPA). a lithograph printed from a stone or the like upon which a picture or design has been formed by photography.
- photomacrograph — a photograph showing a subject at actual size or somewhat larger.
- photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
- phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
- phototopography — topographical surveying employing photogrammetric methods.
- phototypography — (formerly) the art or technique of making printing surfaces by light or photography, by any of a large number of processes.
- photoxylography — the process of using photography in order to produce an image on wood, for the use of a wood engraver
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- plant agreement — a collective agreement at plant level within industry
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- pro-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- 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.
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
- progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
- progress report — written assessment
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- pyrophotography — the production of pyrophotographs
- quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
- radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
- radio programme — something that is broadcast on radio
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
- raster graphics — (graphics) Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
- real programmer — (job, humour) (From the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche") A variety of hacker possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal "Real Programmer" likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at it, remembers the binary op codes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that high-level languages are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been bummed into a state of tenseness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appals. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers - because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel". The term itself was popularised by a 1983 Datamation article "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form.
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- repeating group — (database) Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
- ribier (grapes) — a large, black variety of European or Californian table grape (Vitis vinifera)
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.