15-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a

football player — sportsperson: plays football
for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
force de frappe — a military strike force, esp the independent nuclear strike force of France
fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
free atmosphere — the part of the atmosphere that lies above the frictional influence of the earth's surface.
free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
good and proper — thoroughly
grabber pointer — (operating system) A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
grampian region — a former local government region in NE Scotland, formed in 1975 from Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, and most of Banffshire and Morayshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen, and Moray
grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
group separator — (character) (GS) ASCII character 29.
group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
guerrilla group — an organized group of guerrillas
halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
heart operation — a surgical operation performed on the heart
heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
hematoporphyria — porphyria.
hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.
hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.

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