15-letter words containing pr
- nonproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- opposite prompt — the offstage area to the right as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: O.P.
- opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
- optical printer — a film printer used in making optical effects, consisting basically of a camera that photographs the image with special lenses to enlarge, reduce, distort, etc., and a projector that transfers the image to the print stock, as distinguished from a contact printer.
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- over-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
- over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- overpreparation — the act or instance of preparing excessively
- overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
- overrepresented — represented disproportionately or in too large a number (corresponding to the number in the population, etc)
- pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- partial product — the result obtained when a number is multiplied by one digit of a multiplier
- pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
- peak production — the maximum production
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- permanent press — a process in which a fabric is chemically treated to make it wrinkle-resistant so as to require little or no ironing after washing.
- peter principle — any of several satirical “laws” concerning organizational structure, especially one that holds that people tend to be promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
- photoproduction — the light-induced production of a species of molecule such as a radical or ion
- police presence — attendance or proximity of police officers
- policy priority — the most important idea or plan that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- polychloroprene — a chloroprene polymer
- post-depression — the act of depressing.
- post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- prairie breaker — breaker1 (def 6).
- prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
- prairie oysters — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
- prairie pointer — shooting star (def 2).
- prairie village — a city in E Kansas.
- prairie warbler — an eastern North American wood warbler, Dendroica discolor, olive-green above, yellow below, and striped with black on the face and sides.
- prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
- prajna-paramita — a series of sutras dealing with the perfection of wisdom: systematized by the Madhyamikas.
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- pre-arrangement — to arrange in advance or beforehand.
- pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
- pre-concentrate — to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus: to concentrate one's attention on a problem; to concentrate the rays of the sun with a lens.
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.