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20-letter words containing p, y, r, o, l, s

  • postal delivery zone — zone (def 10).
  • property speculation — the buying or selling of property in the hope of deriving capital gains
  • psychiatric hospital — institution treating mental disorders
  • psychomotor epilepsy — temporal-lobe epilepsy.
  • pyroligneous alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • revolving presidency — a form of presidency in which the president and vice-president, or countries or bodies acting as such, switch roles after a set period and then back again and so on
  • royal leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • schizoid personality — sb with identity disorder
  • spanish oyster plant — a composite plant, Scolymus hispanicus, of southern Europe, having spiny, thistlelike leaf margins, small yellow flowers, and an edible root.
  • state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
  • subscription library — a commercial lending library
  • synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
  • to line your pockets — If you say that someone is lining their own or someone else's pockets, you disapprove of them because they are making money dishonestly or unfairly.
  • to pull your punches — If you say that someone does not pull their punches when they are criticizing a person or thing, you mean that they say exactly what they think, even though this might upset or offend people.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • upper yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park that is 436 m (1430 ft) high
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • woolly spider monkey — a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil
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