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15-letter words containing p, i, e, n, a

  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • 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.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
  • plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
  • pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polynomial-time — (complexity)   (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
  • 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.
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • 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 chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
  • prairie pointer — shooting star (def 2).
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • 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-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
  • pre-negotiation — mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement: the negotiation of a treaty.
  • pre-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • 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.
  • preacquaintance — prior acquaintance with a person or with information, the state of having been preacquainted
  • precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
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