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14-letter words containing a, c, e, n, p, h

  • mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
  • mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
  • metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
  • nicotine patch — plaster to quit smoking
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • orphan process — (operating system)   A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
  • palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
  • paleencephalon — (no longer in technical use) the more primitive part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including all parts except the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
  • paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
  • phenologically — in a phenological manner
  • phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phenyl acetate — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a phenolic odor: used chiefly as a solvent.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
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