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

  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
  • nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • old-established — established for a long time
  • old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • one's last hour — the time of one's death
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
  • oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
  • optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • 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.
  • panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • 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
  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • 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
  • pastoral letter — pastoral (defs 11, 12).
  • pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
  • pathophysiology — the physiology of abnormal or diseased organisms or their parts; the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome.
  • 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
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
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