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15-letter words containing s, t, o, p, a, n

  • opinionatedness — The state or condition of being opinionated.
  • opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
  • oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
  • 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.
  • organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • paralation lisp — Embeds the paralation model in Common LISP. Available from MIT Press, (800)356-0343.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • past continuous — past progressive.
  • pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • personal estate — movable property
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • personal stereo — A personal stereo is a small cassette or CD player with very light headphones, which people carry round so that they can listen to music while doing something else.
  • 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.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • phototransistor — a transistor that amplifies current induced by photoconductivity.
  • physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planck constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
  • point-and-shoot — of or denoting a camera that does not require manual adjustment of shutter speed, focus, aperture, etc.
  • poisson's ratio — the ratio, in an elastic body under longitudinal stress, of the transverse strain to the longitudinal strain.
  • polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
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