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15-letter words containing p, a, u, s

  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
  • corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
  • corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
  • couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
  • crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • escape sequence — (character)   (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
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