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15-letter words containing s, i, n, e, p

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
  • open university — higher education by correspondence
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • palais de danse — a dance hall
  • pan-americanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the countries of North, Central, and South America.
  • 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
  • paraffin series — methane series
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
  • parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
  • pars intermedia — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • passenger train — railway train that carries people
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
  • pepin the short — ("Pepin the Short") died a.d. 768, king of the Franks 751–768 (father of Charlemagne).
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
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