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15-letter words containing n, o, a, d, p, t

  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • top dead center — Top dead center is the position of an engine's piston when it is at the very top of its stroke.
  • top dead-centre — the position of the crank of a reciprocating engine or pump when the piston is at the top of its stroke
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • transportedness — the quality or state of being carried away with pleasure or rapture
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
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