15-letter words containing s, p, e, l, i, n
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- 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.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- 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.
- punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- 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.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- range paralysis — Marek's disease.
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- 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.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-conception — self-concept.
- self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
- self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- self-expression — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- self-oppression — the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.
- self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- self-possession — the quality of being self-possessed; control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composure; poise.
- self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.