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15-letter words containing n, e, p, l

  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • range paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • retirement plan — a systematic plan made and kept by an individual for setting aside income for his or her future retirement.
  • retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rocket airplane — an airplane propelled wholly or mainly by a rocket engine.
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-dependence — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
  • self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
  • self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-expression — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • self-oppression — the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.
  • self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • self-possession — the quality of being self-possessed; control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composure; poise.
  • self-preference — the act of preferring.
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