15-letter words containing s, u, i, t, e, r
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- 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
- post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
- 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.
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- preconstruction — the act or art of constructing.
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- pretentiousness — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- pretty pictures — (scientific computation) The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model, but good for showing to management.
- 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
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- pulitzer prizes — one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.
- 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.
- question master — quizmaster.
- question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- 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.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- 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.