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15-letter words containing t, o, p, l, i

  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
  • socio-political — Socio-political systems and problems involve a combination of social and political factors.
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sole proprietor — only owner
  • solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
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