15-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p, r
- pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- 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
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
- pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
- pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- raster graphics — (graphics) Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
- reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.