15-letter words containing t, o, n, l, e, s
- 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.
- 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.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- 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.
- 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-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
- process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- put oneself out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
- recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recreationalist — recreationist.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- relational dbms — relational database
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
- saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
- saline solution — a solution of salt in water, esp one used medicinally or to keep contact lenses moist
- sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
- scsi controller — SCSI adaptor