15-letter words containing d, i, s, p, l, a
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- lords spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- middle palisade — a mountain of the Sierra Nevada in EC California, one of the Palisades Peaks in the Sierra Nevada 14,040 feet (4279 meters).
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- nil desperandum — never despair
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
- paid-in surplus — surplus paid in by purchasers of stock certificates sold at a premium.
- palais de danse — a dance hall
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- pay-and-display — denoting a car-parking system in which a motorist buys a permit to park for a specified period from a coin-operated machine and displays the permit on or near the windscreen of his or her car so that it can be seen by a parking attendant
- pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- phoenix islands — a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles). The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km (158 500 sq miles)
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- 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).
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- primordial soup — the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- 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.