15-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i
- pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-conception — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
- post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- postvaccination — occurring after a vaccination
- potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
- preconstruction — the act or art of constructing.
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
- prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
- process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procrastination — the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention: She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
- prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protectionistic — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoscientist — a person who practises pseudoscience or who falsely assumes the title of scientist