15-letter words containing s, c, o, p, y
- 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.
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
- procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychophysicist — a person who specializes in psychophysics
- psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
- psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- pycnodysostosis — a disorder characterized by fragile bones
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- ross dependency — a territory in Antarctica, including Ross Island, the coasts along the Ross Sea, and adjacent islands: a dependency of New Zealand. About 175,000 sq. mi. (453,250 sq. km).
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- say one's piece — If you say your piece, you say everything you want to say about a particular matter without being interrupted, although people may be wanting to express opposing views.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.