15-letter words containing p, a, y, t
- proprietorially — in the manner of a proprietor
- propylitization — the alteration of igneous rock to propylite
- proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
- proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
- 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-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- 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.
- pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- pyrophotography — the production of pyrophotographs
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- recycling plant — a factory for processing used or abandoned materials
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- sanitary napkin — a pad of absorbent material, as cotton, worn by women during menstruation to absorb the uterine flow.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
- simple majority — less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
- sinorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the paranasal sinuses and the respiratory tract.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- 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.
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- spratly islands — a widely-scattered group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the S South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims wholly or in part by six neighbouring nations
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- 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.