15-letter words containing l, e, p, s, y
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- 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.
- polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
- primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- 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.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
- septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
- simple majority — less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.