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15-letter words containing a, l, p, e, s

  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • head-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
  • heath speedwell — a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis, having small blue or pinkish white flowers
  • hemel hempstead — a town in W Hertfordshire, in SE England.
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
  • hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
  • implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
  • implementations — Plural form of implementation.
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
  • instalment plan — agreed series of repayments
  • insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
  • insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
  • internal spline — any one of a series of grooves in a mating part into which external splines fit to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • irreparableness — The quality of being irreparable.
  • isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
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