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14-letter words containing pe

  • pooper-scooper — Also called poop scooper. a small shovel or scooping device designed for use in cleaning up after a dog or other pet that has defecated on a street or sidewalk.
  • position paper — a formal, usually detailed written statement, especially regarding a single issue, that articulates a position, viewpoint, or policy, as of a government, organization, or political candidate.
  • post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • pre-copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
  • pre-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • pre-experiment — occurring, existing, or implemented prior to beginning an experiment
  • pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • pre-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • pre-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
  • preoperational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • printing paper — sensitized paper for printing positives.
  • printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • processed peas — peas that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
  • propeller head — Slang. a person who is obsessively devoted to an especially technical pursuit.
  • propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
  • propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • property owner — sb who owns a building or land
  • property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purple emperor — any of several Old World nymphalid butterflies of the genus Apatura, esp A. iris, having mottled purple-and-brown wings
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • queen's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • radar operator — someone who operates the equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
  • radio operator — a person who operates or controls a radio transmitter
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • recycled paper — paper made from recycled materials, esp waste paper
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
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