15-letter words containing p, o, m, e, r, y
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- memory capacity — (on a computer or other device) the amount of memory space available for data storage
- metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- methylpropanone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
- metric topology — a topology for a space in which open sets are defined in terms of a given metric.
- microphotometry — the use of microphotometers to measure the intensity of light transmitted or reflected by very small areas
- microsporocytes — Plural form of microsporocyte.
- military police — soldiers who perform police duties
- minority report — a report by a minority of members of a group that disagrees with the official report issued by the group
- mock pennyroyal — pennyroyal (def 2).
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- mystery shopper — a person who is employed, often by the owners, to visit shops, hotels, etc, incognito, and assess the quality of the service offered
- nephrolithotomy — incision or opening of a kidney pelvis for removal of a calculus.
- noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- noncontemporary — not contemporary
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
- periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
- petroleum jelly — sticky substance used as lubricant
- pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
- primary storage — main memory
- primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
- primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- property market — business or trade in land and houses
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- pyrometric cone — (in a kiln) a triangular piece of material that indicates by bending or melting that a certain temperature has been reached.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- simple majority — less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.