15-letter words containing as
- northeasterners — Plural form of northeasterner.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- object database — a database format in which information is shown in the form of objects
- occipitomastoid — (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones.
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- one's last hour — the time of one's death
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
- ortega y gasset — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- over-assessment — too much assessment
- over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- paget's disease — Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
- parallel pascal — (language) A data-parallel language, similar to Actus and Glypnir.
- parasiticalness — the condition or characteristic of being parasitic
- parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
- pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
- passenger train — railway train that carries people
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- past continuous — past progressive.
- past participle — a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- pastoral letter — pastoral (defs 11, 12).
- pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
- pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
- patria potestas — the power vested in the paterfamilias or head of the Roman family with respect to his wife, natural or adopted children, and agnatic descendants: title to family property is vested exclusively in the paterfamilias. Property acquired by a family member becomes family property, and no family member can enter into a transaction in his or her own right.
- pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
- pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- pilsner glass's — a pale, light lager beer.
- plasma membrane — cell membrane.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- 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.
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes