15-letter words containing o, s, t, r, e
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- progress report — written assessment
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
- 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.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
- protectionistic — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- 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.
- pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
- queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
- question master — quizmaster.
- question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- radiosensitizer — a substance, as a drug, that enhances the sensitivity of tissues or cells to radiation therapy.
- raise one's hat — to take one's hat briefly off one's head as a greeting or mark of respect
- re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- re-presentation — the act of representing.
- reafforestation — replanting with trees
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
- reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- register office — building where civil records are kept
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.