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15-letter words containing s, t, a, u, r

  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • 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 favourites — to display favouritism
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • protospatharius — (of the Byzantine empire) a high-ranking official in the imperial guard
  • pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
  • question master — quizmaster.
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
  • rat-tail cactus — a cactus, Aporocactus flagelliformis, of Mexico, having slim, cylindrical stems that are easily trained into strange designs, and crimson flowers.
  • ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
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