14-letter words containing pri
- primary stress — primary accent.
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- primatological — relating to primatology
- prime computer — (company) (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
- prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principal axis — Optics. a line passing through the center of the surface of a lens or spherical mirror and through the centers of curvature of all segments of the lens or mirror.
- 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.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- print reporter — a reporter who works for a newspaper or magazine
- printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
- printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
- printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- printing error — a misprint or misspelling in a text
- printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- printing paper — sensitized paper for printing positives.
- printing press — a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.
- printing works — an establishment in which printing is carried out
- 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.
- prioritization — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
- priority queue — (programming) A data structure with three operations: insert a new item, return the highest priority item, and remove the highest priority item. The obvious way to represent priority queues is by maintaining a sorted list but this can make the insert operation very slow. Greater efficiency can be achieved by using heaps.
- pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prison visitor — a person who volunteers to pay regular visits to prison inmates
- private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- proprioception — perception governed by proprioceptors, as awareness of the position of one's body.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- pulitzer prize — one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.
- purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
- repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- screen-printed — printed by screen process
- spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful