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15-letter words containing s, n, a, p, o

  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • prior restraint — a court order banning publication of unpublished material.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
  • prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
  • pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
  • pro-nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procrastination — the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention: She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • 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
  • propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
  • proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • 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.
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
  • pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • 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.
  • re-presentation — the act of representing.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
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