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14-letter words containing a, l, e, p

  • police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
  • police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • pontius pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
  • pool attendant — a person who keeps watch at a swimming pool, and rescues anyone in danger of drowning
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
  • port charlotte — a town in SW Florida.
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
  • position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
  • posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • postmenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • prayerlessness — the quality of being prayerless; the state of not praying
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • pre-calculated — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
  • pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • pre-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious coral — red coral.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
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