15-letter words containing e, p, i, s, t, l
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
- visible exports — goods sold to a foreign country or countries
- visible imports — products that a company or country buys from other countries
- well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.