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

  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • slide projector — device for showing slides
  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sole proprietor — only owner
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • special session — a session, as of a legislature or council, called to meet in addition to those held regularly.
  • specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • 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
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • 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
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • 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.
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
  • viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
  • visible exports — goods sold to a foreign country or countries
  • visible imports — products that a company or country buys from other countries
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