15-letter words containing so
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- of sorts/a sort — If you describe something as a thing of sorts or as a thing of a sort, you are suggesting that the thing is of a rather poor quality or standard.
- over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- personal estate — movable property
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- personal growth — development as an individual
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- personal stereo — A personal stereo is a small cassette or CD player with very light headphones, which people carry round so that they can listen to music while doing something else.
- personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- photodissociate — to split or break up molecules as a result of the absorption of photons
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- poisson's ratio — the ratio, in an elastic body under longitudinal stress, of the transverse strain to the longitudinal strain.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- position isomer — any of two or more isomers that differ only in the position occupied by a substituent.
- postconsonantal — immediately following a consonant.
- primordial soup — the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- prison sentence — confinement in prison as a punishment imposed on a person who has been found guilty of a crime
- prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
- prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- pseudo-solution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
- pycnodysostosis — a disorder characterized by fragile bones
- quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
- resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
- rhyme or reason — If something happens or is done without rhyme or reason, there seems to be no logical reason for it to happen or be done.
- robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
- robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.