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15-letter words containing d, i, p, l, o, e

  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
  • 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 telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
  • riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • septendecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • sidereal period — the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars
  • simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
  • slide projector — device for showing slides
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • window envelope — an envelope with a transparent opening through which the address on the enclosure may be read.
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