15-letter words containing pi
- shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
- shrink-wrapping — a flexible plastic wrapping designed to shrink about its contours to protect and seal something
- sinorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the paranasal sinuses and the respiratory tract.
- situs picketing — common situs picketing.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
- snapping beetle — click beetle.
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- 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.
- spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
- spinal ganglion — a ganglion on the dorsal root of each spinal nerve, containing the cell bodies of sensory nerves.
- spinous process — a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebra.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- 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
- spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
- spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
- spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
- spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- 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.
- stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- suppiluliumas i — king of the Hittites (?1375–?1335 bc); founder of the Hittite empire
- surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
- trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- tropicalization — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- under suspicion — suspected of a crime
- undercapitalize — to provide an insufficient amount of capital for (a business enterprise).
- unix conspiracy — [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) - but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this "Unix virus" theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
- utopia planitia — Astronomy. a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars that was the landing site of the Viking II space probe on September 3, 1976.
- venture capital — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
- vicar capitular — a cleric chosen by a cathedral chapter to manage a bishopric during a vacancy.
- water pimpernel — the brookweed.