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15-letter words containing e, l, p

  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • pierrot lunaire — a cycle of 21 songs (1912) for voice and instruments, by Arnold Schönberg, written in Sprechgesang style and set to poems of Albert Giraud in German translation.
  • pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • pineapple juice — fruit drink: nectar of pineapple
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • pixels per inch — (unit, graphics)   (ppi) The unit used to measure resolution of a bitmap display or video input device.
  • plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • plant agreement — a collective agreement at plant level within industry
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • plasma membrane — cell membrane.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • 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.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • 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.
  • platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • play the market — to speculate on a stock exchange
  • plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
  • pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
  • plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
  • pleochroic halo — a dark-colored, microscopic ring around a minute radioactive particle in certain mineral crystals, used in estimating the age of the rocks containing these crystals
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
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