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15-letter words containing p, e, s, i

  • surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
  • type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
  • type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • under suspicion — suspected of a crime
  • undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
  • unprepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unprotestantize — to make something (e.g. a church, country, etc) a religion other than Protestant
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
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