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15-letter words containing pa

  • principal plane — a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system and at which rays diverging from a focal point are deviated parallel to the axis or at which rays parallel to the axis are deviated to converge to a focal point.
  • principal point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • private patient — a patient receiving medical treatment not paid for by the National Health Service
  • private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
  • protospatharius — (of the Byzantine empire) a high-ranking official in the imperial guard
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • put paid to sth — If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.
  • quadripartition — A division into four parts.
  • queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • range paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • rice-paper tree — an Asian shrub or small tree, Tetrapanax papyriferus, of the ginseng family, the pith of which is used in making rice paper.
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roentgenoparent — visible by means of x-rays.
  • rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • semitransparent — imperfectly or almost transparent.
  • 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
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • 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.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • space character — a keyed space in text or data
  • space scientist — an expert or specialist in any of the various science fields which relate to space flight or any phenomena occurring in space or on other planets. This would include for example such fields as Astronautics, Astrophysics, or Galactic Science
  • space telescope — a satellite put in orbit around the earth and equipped with an extremely accurate reflecting telescope, cameras, etc.: it is designed to relay astronomical data to the earth
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spanish morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
  • spanish needles — (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Bidens bipinnata, having achenes with downwardly barbed awns.
  • spanish paprika — a cultivated pepper, Capsicum annuum, grown originally in Spain.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • sparcstation 10 — (computer)   A SPARCStation with a 4-way associative data cache and a five-way associative instruction cache. The 10/31, 10/41 and 10/51 also have a secondary cache not present on earlier SPARCStations.
  • sparcstation 20 — (computer)   A SPARCStation based on the HyperSPARC processor. The 20 is compatible with the earlier SPARCstation 10. It has a clock rate of 100MHz and delivers a SPECfp92 of 127.6. The SPARCstation 20 Model 71 and 712MP uses the 75MHz SuperSPARC processors that give a 35% and 14% boost to SPECint92 and SPECfp92 respectively compared to the 61/612MP.
  • spare no effort — do all you can
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
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