15-letter words containing s, c, r, e
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- on short notice — with little warning
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- oneirocriticism — the art of interpreting dreams.
- 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
- optoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- orestes complex — Psychoanalysis. an unconscious desire of a son to kill his mother.
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- oscars ceremony — a formal annual event in the United States in which small gold statuettes are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in films
- osteochondritis — inflammation of bone and cartilage.
- osteochondrosis — a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.
- ostreiculturist — a person who breeds oysters
- 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.
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- over-scrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
- over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- over-structured — excessively structured or organized.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
- overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
- overorchestrate — to compose or arrange excessively
- overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
- pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
- paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
- 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
- parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
- parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- partial eclipse — astronomy
- 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
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- 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
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- 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
- 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