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15-letter words containing p, o, s, t, f, e

  • not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • office politics — power play in the workplace
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
  • post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
  • present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
  • put oneself out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spare no effort — do all you can
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