17-letter words containing a, l, p, e, s

peripheral vision — all that is visible to the eye outside the central area of focus; side vision.
perpetual spinach — a variety of spinach that keeps producing edible leaves
personal computer — a compact computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for individual use, as by a person in an office or at home or school, for such applications as word processing, data management, financial analysis, or computer games. Abbreviation: PC.
personal distance — personal space.
personal equation — the tendency to personal bias that accounts for variation in interpretation or approach and for which allowance must be made.
personal property — an estate or property consisting of movable articles both corporeal, as furniture or jewelry, or incorporeal, as stocks or bonds (distinguished from real property).
personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
personnel carrier — a vehicle used for transporting troops
personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
peterloo massacre — an incident at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, in 1819 in which a radical meeting was broken up by a cavalry charge, resulting in about 500 injuries and 11 deaths
phenyl isocyanate — a liquid reagent, C 7 H 5 NO, having an unpleasant, irritating odor: used chiefly for identifying alcohols and amines.
physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
pillion passenger — a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc
plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
plateau's problem — the problem in the calculus of variations of finding the surface with the least area bounded by a given closed curve in space.
play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
pluvius insurance — insurance against rain
pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
point reyes lilac — a prostrate shrub, Ceanothus gloriosus, of southern California, having leathery, roundish leaves and purplish or deep-blue flowers.
polar coordinates — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
polioencephalitis — a disease characterized by inflammation of the gray matter of the brain.
political science — a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government.
positive polarity — the grammatical characteristic of a word or phrase, such as delicious or rather, that may normally only be used in a semantically or syntactically positive or affirmative context
post-and-rail tea — (in the 19th century) a coarse tea in which floating particles resembled a post-and-rail fence
post-depositional — removal from an office or position.
postal stationery — an envelope, postal card, wrapper, or aérogramme, with the stamp printed directly on the paper.
postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.
postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
potassium oxalate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and in medical tests as an anticoagulant.
potassium sulfate — a crystalline, water-soluble solid, K 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, alums, and mineral water, and as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
poulter's measure — a metrical pattern using couplets having the first line in iambic hexameter, or 12 syllables, and the second in iambic heptameter, or 14 syllables.
prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
pressure altitude — the altitude for a given pressure in a standard atmosphere, such as that registered by a pressure altimeter.
primary qualities — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
prime ministerial — of or relating to the head of a parliamentary government
production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
professional army — an army of trained soldiers
professional foul — In football, if a player commits a professional foul, they deliberately do something which is against the rules in order to prevent another player from scoring a goal.
prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
prostatic utricle — a small pouch near the prostate gland that opens into the urethra.
protocol analyser — (communications, hardware, networking, testing, tool) Any device that captures and interprets the network traffic between two or more connected computer systems. The traffic can then be decoded so that it is possible to see what processes are occurring. By examining the flow of traffic, protocol analysers can be used to find out where problems (such as bottlenecks or the failure of a network device) are on a LAN. Advanced protocol analysers can also provide statistics on the traffic that can help to identify trends that may in future lead to further problems with the network.
pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.

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