15-letter words containing a, l, i, p, e, d
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- limited partner — special partner.
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- malappropriated — misused or mishandled
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mental handicap — learning disability
- methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
- middle palisade — a mountain of the Sierra Nevada in EC California, one of the Palisades Peaks in the Sierra Nevada 14,040 feet (4279 meters).
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- multiple-valued — many-valued.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- napoleonic code — Code Napoléon
- nil desperandum — never despair
- non-capitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- nonprecedential — Not precedential.
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- open-pollinated — (of a flower) pollinated without human agency.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- orthopaedically — in an orthopaedic manner
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palais de danse — a dance hall
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
- parallelopipeda — plural of parallelopipedon
- partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
- payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
- pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
- pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
- pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- perchloric acid — a colorless, syrupy hygroscopic liquid, HClO 4 , an acid of chlorine containing one more oxygen atom than chloric acid: used chiefly as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance