15-letter words containing p, i, s, c, a, r
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
- misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
- 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.
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
- pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
- pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
- paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
- 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.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- partial eclipse — astronomy
- particularistic — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- past participle — a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
- phosphoric acid — any of three acids, orthophosphoric acid, H 3 PO 4 , metaphosphoric acid, HPO 3 , or pyrophosphoric acid, H 4 P 2 O 7 , derived from phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 , and various amounts of water.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- 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.
- pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle