15-letter words containing p, o, l, e, n, a
- sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- simple equation — linear equation
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
- social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
- sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
- 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.
- 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
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- 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.
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
- uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
- unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
- unpronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- upperclasswoman — An upperclasswoman is a junior or senior student in a high school, college, or university.
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
- xenotransplants — Plural form of xenotransplant.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.