15-letter words containing a, l, e, s, u, n
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- 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
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- queensland blue — a pumpkin with a bluish skin
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- 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
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.