15-letter words containing t, y, p, e, s, c
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- 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.
- 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.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- 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.
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- 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.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.