15-letter words that end in al
- participational — involving participation
- party political — Party political matters relate to political parties.
- pharmacological — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- philanthropical — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
- physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postconsonantal — immediately following a consonant.
- pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- 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.
- principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
- pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- 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.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- retroperitoneal — of or relating to the area behind the abdominal lining, where organs such as the kidneys and bladder are located
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
- semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
- semiterrestrial — living mostly on land but requiring a moist environment or nearby water, especially as a breeding site: Most amphibians are semiterrestrial.
- sentinel animal — an animal that is placed in a given environment and then monitored to find out if an infectious disease or other harmful agent is present in that environment
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
- sinistrodextral — moving or extending from the left to the right.
- socio-political — Socio-political systems and problems involve a combination of social and political factors.
- sociobiological — of or relating to sociobiology
- sociohistorical — involving social and historical elements
- soldier's medal — a medal awarded to any member of the Army of the United States, or of any military organization serving with it, who distinguishes himself or herself by heroism not involving conflict with an enemy.
- sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.