15-letter words containing a, d, o, p, t
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
- 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-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
- put paid to sth — If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.
- put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- quadripartition — A division into four parts.
- quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- 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.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
- radioprotection — protection against radiation
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- 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.
- río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
- saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.