15-letter words containing o, p, t, i, c, e
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
- septendecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
- sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
- shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- slide projector — device for showing slides
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
- st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
- the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underproduction — production that is less than normal or than is required by the demand.
- unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.