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

  • spinal ganglion — a ganglion on the dorsal root of each spinal nerve, containing the cell bodies of sensory nerves.
  • 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
  • spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • 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
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • 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 film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • 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
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • 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.
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
  • 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.
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