15-letter words containing p, r, e, s, t, o
- sport one's oak — to shut this door as a sign one does not want visitors
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
- sports reporter — journalist who covers sports events
- spread the word — make others aware
- st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- 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.
- stress position — an enforced body position, applied esp in the interrogation of detainees, which causes the victim pain by concentrating a large amount of his or her weight on a small number of muscles, joints, etc
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- 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.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- 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.
- super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- 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
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- 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.
- system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
- telestereoscope — a binocular optical instrument used for stereoscopic viewing of distant objects; a small range finder.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
- theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
- theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- thought process — thinking, train of thought