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15-letter words containing p, a, t, i, s

  • supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
  • supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • superparasitism — the parasitic deposit of eggs on a host already parasitized by a different member of the same species
  • superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
  • superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • 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.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  • trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • 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.
  • trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
  • type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
  • type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
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