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15-letter words containing a, s, m, p, l

  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
  • multiple access — multiplexing
  • multiple master — (text, tool, software)   (Or "Multiple Master Font") A font that is a mixture of two or more other fonts. A Multiple Master font is a single font containing from two to sixteen master designs (the current implementation limit). A weight factor specifies the contribution of each master design for the creation of a multiple master font instance. A Multiple Master instance is a single interpolation of a multiple master font as created by a user or application.
  • multispeciality — Alternative form of multispecialty.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
  • myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • nominal aphasia — aphasia in which the primary symptom is an inability to recall or recognize the names of objects
  • non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • plagiostomatous — plagiostome
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plasma membrane — cell membrane.
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
  • post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
  • poststimulation — occurring after stimulation
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
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