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15-letter words containing s, o, l, d, a

  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
  • 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.
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • old-established — established for a long time
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • phoenix islands — a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles). The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km (158 500 sq miles)
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
  • pocos de caldas — a city in E Brazil.
  • 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.
  • post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • primordial soup — the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • 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.
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
  • pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
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