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15-letter words containing d, n, a, s

  • 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 choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • 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.
  • point-and-shoot — of or denoting a camera that does not require manual adjustment of shutter speed, focus, aperture, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • postirradiation — occurring after or due to irradiation
  • pound one's ear — to sleep
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • prepaid expense — A prepaid expense is an expense that has been paid for before it is incurred, and that is treated as an asset.
  • prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
  • presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • 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.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • 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.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • qaboos bin said — born 1940, Sultan of Oman from 1970
  • quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
  • quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • queensland blue — a pumpkin with a bluish skin
  • qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
  • radar astronomy — the branch of astronomy that uses radar to map the surfaces of planetary bodies, as the moon and Venus, and to determine periods of rotation.
  • radio astronomy — the branch of astronomy that utilizes extraterrestrial radiation in radio wavelengths rather than visible light for the study of the universe.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • radiosensitizer — a substance, as a drug, that enhances the sensitivity of tissues or cells to radiation therapy.
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • reading glasses — spectacles
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
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