15-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- postirradiation — occurring after or due to irradiation
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postpollination — occurring after pollination
- poststimulation — occurring after stimulation
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
- postulationally — in a postulational manner
- postvaccination — occurring after a vaccination
- potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
- 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 oysters — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
- 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-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- precipitantness — the condition or quality of being precipitant, hastiness
- preconstruction — the act or art of constructing.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
- presentationism — the doctrine that in perception, or in all forms of knowledge, there is an immediate awareness of the things perceived.
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- prestidigitator — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- pretty pictures — (scientific computation) The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model, but good for showing to management.
- price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
- primary storage — main memory
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.