15-letter words containing p, r, o, n
- up one's street — (just) what one knows or likes best
- 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.
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- variola porcina — an acute infectious viral disease of pigs characterized by skin eruptions
- vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- voronoi polygon — (mathematics, graphics) For a member s of a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the locus of points in the plane that are closer to s than to any other member of S.
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- win one's spurs — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
- work experience — temporary job placement
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
- wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
- 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.
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.