15-letter words containing p, i, d
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- studio portrait — a photograph of a person taken in a studio
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- to get mixed up — if you get mixed up, you get confused about something
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- 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
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- 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).
- udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- under suspicion — suspected of a crime
- undercapitalize — to provide an insufficient amount of capital for (a business enterprise).
- underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- underproduction — production that is less than normal or than is required by the demand.
- underpublicized — lacking publicity
- undisappointing — not disappointing
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.