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15-letter words containing o, p, y

  • play havoc with — bring chaos to
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • policy priority — the most important idea or plan that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • political party — an organization of people who share the same views about the way power should be used in a country or society (through government, policy-making, etc)
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polychloroprene — a chloroprene polymer
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polyelectrolyte — an electrolyte of high molecular weight, usually polymeric, either natural or synthetic.
  • polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • 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.
  • polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
  • polyphloesboean — noisy
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • 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.
  • polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
  • popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
  • postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • postulationally — in a postulational manner
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • prairie oysters — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
  • primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
  • primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
  • primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
  • primary storage — main memory
  • primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
  • primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • 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.
  • property centre — a service for buying and selling property, including conveyancing, provided by a group of local solicitors
  • property ladder — progress from cheaper to more expensive housing
  • property market — business or trade in land and houses
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