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15-letter words containing p, r, o, s, l

  • orestes complex — Psychoanalysis. an unconscious desire of a son to kill his mother.
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
  • over-scrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
  • overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • pastoral letter — pastoral (defs 11, 12).
  • pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • personal estate — movable property
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • personal stereo — A personal stereo is a small cassette or CD player with very light headphones, which people carry round so that they can listen to music while doing something else.
  • personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • 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
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
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