15-letter words containing s, a, n, d, p, e
- dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
- german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
- golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- independentista — (especially in Latin America) a person who supports or works toward political independence, especially one supporting radical changes in an existing government or from an existing system of government.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- nil desperandum — never despair
- non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
- open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
- packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
- palais de danse — a dance hall
- panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam