15-letter words containing s, g, n
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- 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
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- polling station — voting venue
- polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- pop one's clogs — If you say that someone has popped their clogs, you mean that they have died.
- port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- preregistration — early registration, in advance of event or general registration
- pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- princess regent — a princess who is regent of a country.
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
- prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psion organiser — (computer) A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- quadragenarians — Plural form of quadragenarian.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- queen's english — king's English.
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reading glasses — spectacles
- reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
- registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner