17-letter words containing or
- portuguese guinea — former name of Guinea-Bissau.
- power of attorney — a written document given by one person or party to another authorizing the latter to act for the former.
- pre-authorization — the act of authorizing.
- pre-incorporation — the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.
- predatory pricing — If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market.
- prior probability — the probability assigned to a parameter or to an event in advance of any empirical evidence, often subjectively or on the assumption of the principle of indifference
- priority check-in — Priority check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in without waiting in a line.
- pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
- procurator fiscal — In the Scottish legal system, the procurator fiscal is a public official who puts people on trial.
- program generator — a computer program that can be used to help to create other computer programs
- proportional font — a font type in which the width of letters and symbols varies depending on the letter or symbol
- protection factor — a figure representing the relative degree of protection from the sun's rays afforded by a particular sunscreen
- prothoracic gland — either of a pair of endocrine glands in the anterior thorax of some insects, functioning to promote the series of molts from hatching to adulthood.
- pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- public prosecutor — an officer charged with the conduct of criminal prosecution in the interest of the public.
- purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- put in a word for — to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
- pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
- quadratic formula — the formula for determining theroots of a quadratic equation from its coefficients: .
- quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
- quattuordecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.
- radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
- rail detector car — a car equipped with special instruments and used to locate defects in rails.
- read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
- receding forehead — a forehead which slopes backwards
- recorded delivery — If you send a letter or parcel recorded delivery, you send it using a Post Office service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been posted and delivered.
- recording session — a period of time devoted to recording music in a studio
- recoverable error — a program error that can be corrected and does not cause the program to fail or irretrievably lose data.
- recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
- reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
- reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
- refractory period — a short period after a nerve or muscle cell fires during which the cell cannot respond to additional stimulation.
- refuse destructor — someone responsible for or something that destructs or destroys rubbish and waste
- relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
- remote monitoring — (protocol) (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a much richer set of data about network usage. For RMON to work, network devices, such as hubs and switches, must be designed to support it. The newest version of RMON, RMON 2, provides data about traffic at the network layer in addition to the physical layer. This allows administrators to analyse traffic by protocol.
- repertory catalog — a catalog containing bibliographic records that indicate locations of materials in more than one library or in several units of one library.
- repertory company — repertory (def 2).
- repertory society — a group that supports amateur performances of plays by its members
- repertory theater — repertory (def 2).
- reported question — A reported question is a question which is reported using a clause beginning with a word such as 'why' or 'whether', as in 'I asked her why she'd done it'.
- republic of korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
- respiratory chain — a series of mitochondrial proteins that transport electrons of hydrogen, released in the Krebs cycle, from acetyl coenzyme A to inhaled oxygen to form H 2 O: the energy released in the process is conserved as ATP.
- respiratory tract — the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
- restraining order — a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.
- rhetorical stress — stress required by the meaning of a line, as distinguished from that required by the meter.
- rheumatoid factor — an antibody that is found in the blood of many persons afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis and that reacts against globulins in the blood.
- right-to-work law — a state law making it illegal to refuse employment to a person for the sole reason that he or she is not a union member.
- ring in (or out) — to punch in (or out)
- roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.