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15-letter words containing s, p, o, r, i

  • operations room — a room from which all the operations of a military, police, or other disciplined activity are controlled
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opposite prompt — the offstage area to the right as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: O.P.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • optoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
  • orthophosphoric — (chemistry) Describing the ordinary form of phosphoric acid and its derivatives.
  • orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
  • over-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overpessimistic — excessively pessimistic or negative in outlook
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
  • patria potestas — the power vested in the paterfamilias or head of the Roman family with respect to his wife, natural or adopted children, and agnatic descendants: title to family property is vested exclusively in the paterfamilias. Property acquired by a family member becomes family property, and no family member can enter into a transaction in his or her own right.
  • pepin the short — ("Pepin the Short") died a.d. 768, king of the Franks 751–768 (father of Charlemagne).
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
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