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19-letter words containing pr

  • profitability study — a study of how much profit a company, organization, etc, makes or how profitable it is
  • programmed learning — a progressively monitored, step-by-step teaching method, employing small units of information or learning material and frequent testing, whereby the student must complete or pass one stage before moving on to the next.
  • programmer's switch — (hardware)   A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
  • progressive judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • projection printing — the act or process of making projection prints.
  • projective geometry — the geometric study of projective properties.
  • projective property — a geometric property that is unaltered by projection; a property of relative position, as coincidence or length, but not of magnitude.
  • promotion prospects — the chances or prospects an employee has for promotion or for gaining a better position, often in the same company
  • promotions director — someone in charge of encouraging the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
  • property settlement — an agreement between a divorcing husband and wife covering the division of their assets
  • property speculator — a person who takes part in property speculation
  • propositional logic — (logic)   (or "propositional calculus") A system of symbolic logic using symbols to stand for whole propositions and logical connectives. Propositional logic only considers whether a proposition is true or false. In contrast to predicate logic, it does not consider the internal structure of propositions.
  • protease inhibitors — a drug that inhibits the action of protease, especially any of a class of antiviral drugs that prevent the cleavage and replication of HIV proteins.
  • proto-indo-european — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Indo-European languages; Indo-European.
  • proton-proton chain — a series of thermonuclear reactions, responsible for the energy production in stars like the sun, in which the nuclei of hydrogen atoms are transformed into helium nuclei by sequential addition of single hydrogen nuclei.
  • provably unsolvable — The set or property of problems for which no algorithm at all exists. E.g. the Halting Problem. See also provably difficult.
  • pseudo-professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
  • reciprocal exchange — an unincorporated association formed so that its members can participate in reciprocal insurance.
  • reciprocal leveling — leveling between two widely separated points in which observations are made in both directions to eliminate the effects of atmospheric refraction and the curvature of the earth.
  • reciprocity failure — a failure of the two exposure variables, light intensity and exposure time, to behave in a reciprocal fashion at very high or very low values
  • repeat prescription — A repeat prescription is a prescription for a medicine that you have taken before or that you use regularly.
  • representationalism — Also called representative realism. Epistemology. the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object.
  • sanitary protection — Sanitary protection is sanitary towels or tampons.
  • sea floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • sea-floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • secondary processes — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
  • self-interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • self-representation — the act of representing.
  • sense of proportion — If someone has a sense of proportion, they know what is really important and what is not.
  • sensory deprivation — the experimental or natural reduction of environmental stimuli, as by physical isolation or loss of eyesight, often leading to cognitive, perceptual, or behavioral changes, as disorientation, delusions, or panic.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • silk-screen process — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
  • single-cell protein — a protein produced or derived from the culture of a single-celled organism, used as a food supplement or substitute. Abbreviation: SCP.
  • splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
  • spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
  • stabilization print — a print made by the stabilization process.
  • subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
  • supreme de volaille — suprême (def 2).
  • the peter principle — the theory, usually taken facetiously, that all members in a hierarchy rise to their own level of incompetence
  • the provisional ira — the unofficial faction of the IRA that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s
  • the underprivileged — those who are underprivileged
  • theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
  • to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
  • total probable loss — A total probable loss is the highest degree of loss or damage that is probable if an insured event occurs.
  • tropic of capricorn — Astronomy. the Goat, a zodiacal constellation between Sagittarius and Aquarius.
  • tropical depression — an atmospheric low-pressure system originating in the tropics, specifically, a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.
  • underrepresentation — the act of representing.
  • united presbyterian — a member of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, founded in Pittsburgh in 1858 by a union of two Presbyterian groups.
  • unnatural practices — acts which are deemed to be contrary to expected standards of human behaviour
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