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15-letter words containing n, y, m, p

  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphophonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • murphy-o'connor — Cormac. born 1932, British cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (2000–09)
  • nephrolithotomy — incision or opening of a kidney pelvis for removal of a calculus.
  • non-complacency — Archaic. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance. a civil act.
  • noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • noncontemporary — not contemporary
  • open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • parliamentarily — in a parliamentary manner
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
  • plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
  • polynomial-time — (complexity)   (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • premillennially — from a premillennial point of view
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
  • proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • re-entry permit — a permit required to return to certain countries after leaving for an extended period of time
  • refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • temperamentally — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
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