15-letter words containing s, p, a, c, y
- physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
- 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 kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- primary process — the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- say one's piece — If you say your piece, you say everything you want to say about a particular matter without being interrupted, although people may be wanting to express opposing views.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner