15-letter words containing p, e, n, d, a, t
- 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.
- portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- 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-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- prekindergarten — a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years.
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- product manager — sb who oversees product development
- proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
- quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
- quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radioprotection — protection against radiation
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
- 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
- sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
- 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.
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- 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.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- step-and-repeat — noting or pertaining to a process by which successive photo-offset plates are produced automatically or semiautomatically with great precision: used especially in making plates for multicolor printing.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
- tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.