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15-letter words containing a, m, p

  • ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
  • pancake make-up — make up in cake form applied to the face with a sponge in order to cover up imperfections and even out skin tone
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • parchment paper — a waterproof and grease-resistant paper produced by treating ordinary paper with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
  • parliamentarian — a person who is expert in the formal rules and procedures of deliberative assemblies and other formal organizations.
  • parliamentarily — in a parliamentary manner
  • parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • pars intermedia — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • patent medicine — a medicine sold without a prescription in drugstores or by sales representatives, and usually protected by a trademark.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
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