15-letter words containing pen
- open one's eyes — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- open-cut mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- open-ended loan — An open-ended loan is an extension of credit where money can be borrowed when you need it, and paid back on an ongoing basis, such as a credit card.
- open-pit mining — a method of mining, usually for metallic ores, in which the waste and ore are completely removed from the sides and bottom of a pit which gradually becomes an enormous canyonlike hole
- open-pollinated — (of a flower) pollinated without human agency.
- opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
- opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- openmouthedness — the state or condition of being filled with amazement and wonder
- out in the open — knowledge: public
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- penetration aid — a device or tactic, as the use of chaff or decoys or the maintaining of a low flight level, that helps an aircraft or missile to enter hostile air space.
- penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- pentaerythritol — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 1 2 O 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of alkyd resins, varnishes, plasticizers, and explosives.
- pentium ii xeon — (processor) The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache.
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- prepaid expense — A prepaid expense is an expense that has been paid for before it is incurred, and that is treated as an asset.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- ross dependency — a territory in Antarctica, including Ross Island, the coasts along the Ross Sea, and adjacent islands: a dependency of New Zealand. About 175,000 sq. mi. (453,250 sq. km).
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self-dependence — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- simple pendulum — a hypothetical apparatus consisting of a point mass suspended from a weightless, frictionless thread whose length is constant, the motion of the body about the string being periodic and, if the angle of deviation from the original equilibrium position is small, representing simple harmonic motion (distinguished from physical pendulum).
- sinai peninsula — broad peninsula in NE Egypt, between the Gulf of Suez & the Gulf of Aqaba
- social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- suspensefulness — the state of being suspenseful
- suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- turpentine tree — a tropical African leguminous tree, Copaifera mopane, yielding a hard dark wood and a useful resin
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- upper peninsula — a peninsula in the northern US between Lakes Superior and Michigan, constituting the N part of the state of Michigan
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- widow's pension — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment made to a widow
- winning opening — the dedans, winning gallery, or grille.
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- yorke peninsula — a peninsula in S Australia between Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent. 160 miles (257 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km) wide.