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15-letter words containing p, o, i, r

  • studio portrait — a photograph of a person taken in a studio
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • 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
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • 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.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
  • support mission — assistance given by one military unit to another to assist in the accomplishment of the supported unit's mission.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
  • 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.
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  • trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
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