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15-letter words containing a, c, l, o, s, e

  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pocos de caldas — a city in E Brazil.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • post-apoplectic — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
  • post-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
  • pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • 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.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • 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.
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • sailor's choice — any of various small percoid fishes of American coastal regions of the Atlantic, esp the grunt Haemulon parra and the pinfish
  • sailor's-choice — any of several fishes living in waters along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., especially a pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas, and a grunt, Haemulon parrai, ranging from Florida to Brazil.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • sales associate — salesperson
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
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