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15-letter words containing a, r, t, p, e

  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • past participle — a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • pastoral letter — pastoral (defs 11, 12).
  • pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
  • patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
  • patellar reflex — knee jerk.
  • patent engineer — a person who draws up applications for patents
  • paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
  • paternity order — a court order which declares a child's paternity
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • patria potestas — the power vested in the paterfamilias or head of the Roman family with respect to his wife, natural or adopted children, and agnatic descendants: title to family property is vested exclusively in the paterfamilias. Property acquired by a family member becomes family property, and no family member can enter into a transaction in his or her own right.
  • 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
  • pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • pectoral girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs.
  • 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.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • penetration aid — a device or tactic, as the use of chaff or decoys or the maintaining of a low flight level, that helps an aircraft or missile to enter hostile air space.
  • penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • pentaerythritol — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 1 2 O 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of alkyd resins, varnishes, plasticizers, and explosives.
  • pepper-and-salt — composed of a fine mixture of black with white: pepper-and-salt hair.
  • perchloroethane — hexachloroethane.
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • 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.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • period-rotation — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
  • permanent press — a process in which a fabric is chemically treated to make it wrinkle-resistant so as to require little or no ironing after washing.
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • perpetual check — a continuing series of checks resulting in a drawn game because they cannot be halted or evaded without resulting in checkmate or a serious disadvantage.
  • personal estate — movable property
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • personal stereo — A personal stereo is a small cassette or CD player with very light headphones, which people carry round so that they can listen to music while doing something else.
  • personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • peter the great — ("the Great") 1672–1725, czar of Russia 1682–1725.
  • petit serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant renders services of an impersonal nature to the king, as providing him annually with an implement of war, as a lance or bow.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • phenyl valerate — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 1 1 H 1 4 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring and perfumery.
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