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

  • microsporocytes — Plural form of microsporocyte.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
  • more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • mystery shopper — a person who is employed, often by the owners, to visit shops, hotels, etc, incognito, and assess the quality of the service offered
  • nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
  • net.personality — Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usenet, through either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net.godhood.
  • neurohypophyses — Plural form of neurohypophysis.
  • neurohypophysis — See under pituitary gland.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • new jersey plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
  • noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • open university — higher education by correspondence
  • paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
  • pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • petit serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant renders services of an impersonal nature to the king, as providing him annually with an implement of war, as a lance or bow.
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • phototypesetter — a machine for phototypesetting
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physiotherapist — physical therapy.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • 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.
  • polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • 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.
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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