15-letter words containing l, o, p, e, s
- superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- telestereoscope — a binocular optical instrument used for stereoscopic viewing of distant objects; a small range finder.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
- the peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- 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.
- twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
- two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
- ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- up one's sleeve — secretly ready
- upperclasswoman — An upperclasswoman is a junior or senior student in a high school, college, or university.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- 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.
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- 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.
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- xenotransplants — Plural form of xenotransplant.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.
- zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.