15-letter words containing p, a, s, d, c
- pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- 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.
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
- slap and tickle — sexual play
- social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
- 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
- special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
- speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
- spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.