15-letter words containing si
- physiotherapist — physical therapy.
- piero di cosimo — Piero di [pee-air-oh di;; Italian pye-raw dee] /piˈɛər oʊ dɪ;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ di/ (Show IPA), Piero di Cosimo.
- pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
- pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.
- polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
- position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
- position isomer — any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.
- positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-depression — the act of depressing.
- posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
- president-elect — a president after election but before induction into office.
- presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
- processionalist — a member of a procession
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
- psion organiser — (computer) A popular pocket computer from the UK Company Psion plc. The organiser uses a graphical user interface with windows, menus, icons and dialog boxes. There have been several versions so far: Series3a, Series3, HC, MC, OrgII.
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- psychophysicist — a person who specializes in psychophysics
- psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
- pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- push up daisies — any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
- pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- pycnodysostosis — a disorder characterized by fragile bones
- quasi-automatic — having the capability of starting, operating, moving, etc., independently: an automatic sprinkler system; an automatic car wash.
- quasi-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- quasi-quotation — a metalinguistic device for referring to the form of an expression containing variables without referring to the symbols for those variables. Thus while "not p" refers to the expression consisting of the word not followed by the letter p, the quasi-quotation ⌈ not p ⌉ refers to the form of any expression consisting of the word not followed by any value of the variable p
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.