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15-letter words containing g, o, s, i, p

  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • primary storage — main memory
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
  • property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psion organiser — (computer)   A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
  • 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.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • registered port — (networking)   Any TCP or UDP port with a number in the range 1025 to 65535 (i.e. not a well-known port) that is registered with IANA.
  • registered post — a Post Office service by which compensation is paid for loss or damage to mail for which a registration fee has been paid
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
  • shooting script — a motion-picture scenario having the scenes arranged in the order in which they are to be photographed.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
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