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15-letter words containing t, e, l, s, p, c

  • 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.
  • 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 scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • post-apoplectic — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
  • post-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
  • 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.
  • punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • 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.
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • septendecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
  • sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
  • ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • simple sentence — a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday.
  • simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
  • slap and tickle — sexual play
  • slide projector — device for showing slides
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