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15-letter words containing s, p, e

  • apophthegmatist — a person who creates apophthegms
  • apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
  • apostles' creed — a concise statement of Christian beliefs dating from about 500 ad, traditionally ascribed to the Apostles
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
  • archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • armes parlantes — arms using devices to illustrate the name of the bearers, such as a rose and a wall to illustrate the name Rosewall
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • array processor — (processor)   (Or "vector processor") A computer, or extension to its arithmetic unit, that is capable of performing simultaneous computations on elements of an array or table of data in some number of dimensions. The IBM AltiVec (the "Velocity Engine" used in the Apple G4 computers) is a vector processor. Common uses for array processors include analysis of fluid dynamics and rotation of 3d objects, as well as data retrieval, in which elements of a database are scanned simultaneously. Array processors are very rare now (1998).
  • asclepiadaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • asset-stripping — If a person or company is involved in asset-stripping, they buy companies cheaply, sell off their assets to make a profit, and then close the companies down.
  • astrophotometry — the measurement of the intensity of light of celestial objects.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • australian pine — casuarina
  • autobiographers — Plural form of autobiographer.
  • autobiographies — Plural form of autobiography.
  • autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • barium sulphate — a white insoluble fine dense powder, used as a pigment, as a filler for paper, rubber, etc, and in barium meals. Formula: BaSO4
  • basses-pyrenees — former name of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • bayeux tapestry — an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England
  • be one up on sb — If you try to get one up on someone, you try to gain an advantage over them.
  • be spoiling for — to have an aggressive desire for (a fight, etc)
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • bedroom slipper — a soft shoe worn in the house
  • beefsteak plant — an Asian plant, Perilla frutescens crispa, with aromatic red or green leaves which are used in cooking: family Lamiaceae
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • bergius process — a method of hydrogenation formerly used with coal to produce an oil similar to petroleum.
  • bias (ply) tire — a motor vehicle tire having a foundation of plies of rubberized cords in a crisscross pattern of lines diagonal to the center line of the tread
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
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