15-letter words containing d, e, l, a, n
- planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- queen maud land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Africa: Norwegian explorations.
- queensland blue — a pumpkin with a bluish skin
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- recording angel — an angel who supposedly keeps a record of every person's good and bad acts
- red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- ricinoleic acid — a colorless to yellow, viscous, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated hydroxyl acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 3 , occurring in castor oil in the form of the glyceride: used chiefly in soaps and textile finishing.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.