15-Letter Words Containing P

See spiny-headed worm .

Acceptability

ACCEPTINGNESS accepting

Dancing, singing, et al.

Bill praises mum for bringing in gifts

Special skills

Accountantship

A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.

Achondroplasia

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Plural or third person singular

""The anterior glandular lobe of the pituitary gland that secretes many hormones, including ACTH, prolactin, and somatotropin.""

Allelomorphism

Allotetraploid

ALLOTETRAPLOID

Theme of this puzzle

One way of ordering things, like all the consonants in rows three, six and nine

Some presidential appointments

Overseas appointments

Diplomatic jobs

Aminopeptidase

AMORPHOUSNESS amorphous

Amphidiploidy

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

""ANISOTROPIC Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Dish me up Latinate ten? Such is X!

Of the third syllable from the end

Third from last

Seeing man as focus of the universe

Regarding humans as all-important

Revolving around mankind

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Mead et al.

Margaret Mead's colleagues

Anthropometry

Described in a human form

Having a human form

Treating nonhuman beings as humans

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Anthropophagy

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Anthroposophy

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

Anticapitalism

Anticapitalist

Monopolistic

Plural noun (-tions)

Mame's corsets

Mood-enhancing drugs

Psychiatrist's arsenal

Plural noun (-sions)

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

Antimonopolist

Sure things (wordplay)

They're put on for a dry run

*Sure and more

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Antiseparatist

SHOPLIFTING shoplift

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Antisyphilitic

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

Apocalypticism

Apolipoprotein

Appealability

Applicability

Train times (wordplay)

Potential artisans in dentures!

In which tradesmen learn joints

Tour golfer's need (wordplay)

Asset for social people

Open quality: skill at getting ball on green (wordplay)

Rightness or relevance

Felicity to commandeer promontory

Suitability

Archaeopteryx

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Aromatherapist

Arteriography

Writing or recording related

Astrophysical

Astrophysicist

In relation to the atmosphere.

Autobiographer

Personal accounts (wordplay)

Confessions of a sort

Lives created in self-reliant way

Autographical

Autoradiograph

The process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

Autotetraploid

AUTOTETRAPLOID

""AUTOTROPHIC Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.""

Bacteriophagy

Benzodiazepine

Like a librarian's job

Sourced

Bibliotherapy

Of or pertaining to biogeography.

""The study of the spatial and temporal distribution of fossil organisms, often interpolated with radiometric, geochemical, and paleoenvironmental information as a means of dating rock strata.""

Bipartisanship

Bipolarization

Blasphemous

Blaxploitation

Like serpentine writing

Brachycephaly

Bronchoscopist

BUMPTIOUSNESS Conceitedness.

Businessperson

""CAPACIOUSNESS The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.""

Total corporate liabilities

Features of proper nouns

'Z' in Italian, endlessly beset by subtitles in letters made large

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

Carpetbaggery

""The anterior section of arachnids and many crustaceans, consisting of the fused head and thorax.""

Cephalothorax

Chancellorship

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

Chemotherapist

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Chronotherapy

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

An inscription written around anything.

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

Claustrophobia

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Comparability

Comparative

Olympic season at variance with feeling

With humane feeling.

With sympathy

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Compatibility

The state or quality of being compendious.

Competitive

Complementary

Complementary

The state or quality of being complementary: "This is where the complementarity of the masculine and the feminine so acutely emerges. They are the necessary poles of a dialectic process" (Therese Namenek).

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

Complementizer

Complicated

At no cost

Compositional

How Ph.D. aspirants are tested

So as to contain everything

Including everything

""The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.""

English word

Computability

Computational

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

Computerphobia

CONCEPTUALISE conceptual

Initially inferior count: sceptical, sadly, about making a baby (wordplay)

Conceptuality

Conceptualizer

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

Congressperson

His cousin, person cast in the role of a pundit

Skill of well-informed person somehow crushes opinions

""A person in charge of maintaining or restoring valuable items, as in a museum or library.""

Conspicuous

Consultantship

Thoughtfully.

The state of being contemporaneous.

Like Shakespeare and Bacon

Arising at the same time.

Occurring at the same time

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

Contraposition

Contrapositive

Controllership

Cooperationist

What police seek in an investigation

CORPOREALNESS Corporeality; corporeity.

Letters

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corticotrophin

Being a citizen of the world

State of world citizenship

Plot with a commission to destroy the global view

Councillorship

English word

Counterexample

Noun (-tion)

Counterpicket

""COUNTERPLOT To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.""

Counterpoint

Noun (-ure)

Counterproject

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

Counterprotest

COUNTERPUNCHER counterpunch

Counterpunch

English word

Present participle or gerund

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.

Cryoprotectant

CRYPTANALYTIC

Cryptorchidism

Cryptozoology

Sasquatch studier, say

One studying this puzzle's sightings

Dinosaur hunter, by definition

Use for x-rays

Science concerned with the formation, properties and structure of clear quartz

Cyproheptadine

The study of cells and chemical compounds within cells by means of a cytophotometer.

CYTOPLASMIC

Daguerreotypy

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

One who takes daguerreotypes.

DECEPTIVENESS The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Decompensation

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) to break down (organic matter) or (of organic matter) to be broken down physically and chemically by bacterial or fungal action; rot

Demographical

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction

Dependability

Inflected form of PERSONALIZING Inflected form of PERSONALIZE To make personal.

""Inflected form of PHOSPHORYLATE Inflected form of PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Depigmentation

Depolarization

Science of fingerprints

Study of fingerprints no repeated letters (nonverbal)

Descriptive

DESPERATENESS Desperation; virulence.

""Inflected form of SPIRITUALIZED Inflected form of SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Despiritualize

Tense about wild fun in baths with little liquid

As much as can be eaten in one go during the final course of a meal (wordplay)

Rene's old fusspot, pouring out measure of liquid in kitchen