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15-letter words containing p, e, a, r, s

  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • port wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • port-wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • pound one's ear — to sleep
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • prairie oysters — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • pre-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • prepaid expense — A prepaid expense is an expense that has been paid for before it is incurred, and that is treated as an asset.
  • prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
  • preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
  • preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
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