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15-letter words containing s, a, l, c

  • 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.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parallel pascal — (language)   A data-parallel language, similar to Actus and Glypnir.
  • parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
  • partial eclipse — astronomy
  • particularistic — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
  • pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
  • 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
  • past participle — a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
  • photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
  • physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
  • physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pitcairn island — a small British island in the S Pacific, SE of Tuamotu Archipelago: settled 1790 by mutineers of the Bounty. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
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