15-letter words containing l, e, p, s
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
- present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- press the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
- 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).
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- 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.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.