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15-letter words containing s, e, a, u

  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • 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.
  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • 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
  • 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
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • 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
  • pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • 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.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • posse comitatus — the body of persons that a peace officer of a county is empowered to call upon for assistance in preserving the peace, making arrests, and serving writs.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • pound one's ear — to sleep
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
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