15-letter words containing a, c, l, s, t
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- 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
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- post-apoplectic — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
- post-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
- postconsonantal — immediately following a consonant.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- 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
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- 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.
- rat-tail cactus — a cactus, Aporocactus flagelliformis, of Mexico, having slim, cylindrical stems that are easily trained into strange designs, and crimson flowers.
- 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.
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- 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.
- 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.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- russell's attic — (mathematics) An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.