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

  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • keep one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • keep one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • leyland cypress — a fast-growing cypress, Cupressocyparis leylandii, that is a hybrid produced by crossing the macrocarpa with the Nootka cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis): widely grown for hedging
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
  • mitotic spindle — spindle (def 11).
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • non-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • non-compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • 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.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • open admissions — a policy of admitting applicants to an institution, especially a university, regardless of previous academic record or grades.
  • openmouthedness — the state or condition of being filled with amazement and wonder
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overrepresented — represented disproportionately or in too large a number (corresponding to the number in the population, etc)
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • palais de danse — a dance hall
  • panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • partners---desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
  • pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
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