15-letter words containing p, a, r, b, t
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
- probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
- probationership — the position of a probationer
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- 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.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
- trade paperback — a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hard-cover book, intended for sale in bookstores as distinguished from a cheaper and smaller paperback intended for sale on racks at drugstores, newsstands, etc.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.