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15-letter words containing n, o, s, t, r, a

  • one's last hour — the time of one's death
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • over-assessment — too much assessment
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-estimation — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal estate — movable property
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • personal stereo — A personal stereo is a small cassette or CD player with very light headphones, which people carry round so that they can listen to music while doing something else.
  • personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • phototransistor — a transistor that amplifies current induced by photoconductivity.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • poisson's ratio — the ratio, in an elastic body under longitudinal stress, of the transverse strain to the longitudinal strain.
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • 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.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • port wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • port-wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
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