15-letter words containing p, s, a, m, o
- mount parnassus — a mountain in central Greece, in NW Boeotia: in ancient times sacred to Dionysus, Apollo, and the Muses, with the Castalian Spring and Delphi on its slopes. Height: 2457 m (8061 ft)
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- neoarsphenamine — a derivative of arsenic formerly used in treating syphilis
- nominal aphasia — aphasia in which the primary symptom is an inability to recall or recognize the names of objects
- non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- occipitomastoid — (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones.
- open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
- ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
- ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
- palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
- palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
- panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
- pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- 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
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
- plagiostomatous — plagiostome
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- 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.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle