17-letter words containing pri
- private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- private secretary — a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
- proprietary brand — a brand of product that is privately owned and controlled
- public enterprise — economic activity by governmental organizations
- reality principle — the motivating force or mechanism by which the child, who has previously sought immediate gratification of all wishes, realizes that gratification must sometimes be deferred or forgone.
- self-priming pump — A self-priming pump is a pump that will clear its passages of air and start pumping.
- seminal principle — a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.
- silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
- sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
- social enterprise — a business organization that works to benefit society as a whole
- special privilege — exclusive advantage
- spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- surprise symphony — the Symphony No. 94 in G major (1791) by Franz Josef Haydn.
- take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
- take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
- the primrose path — a pleasurable way of life
- to prime the pump — To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy.
- wage-price spiral — a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation