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

  • prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
  • prognosticators — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • programme notes — notes designed to act as guide to an audience listening to live (esp classical) music. They will inform about the sequence of music played and may give some information about the music
  • propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • prostate cancer — cancer of the prostate
  • proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • 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.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • 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.
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • 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).
  • radar astronomy — the branch of astronomy that uses radar to map the surfaces of planetary bodies, as the moon and Venus, and to determine periods of rotation.
  • radio astronomy — the branch of astronomy that utilizes extraterrestrial radiation in radio wavelengths rather than visible light for the study of the universe.
  • radiosensitizer — a substance, as a drug, that enhances the sensitivity of tissues or cells to radiation therapy.
  • railway station — train stop, railroad station
  • raise one's hat — to take one's hat briefly off one's head as a greeting or mark of respect
  • re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • re-presentation — the act of representing.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • reafforestation — replanting with trees
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recreationalist — recreationist.
  • redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
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