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14-letter words containing a, m, p, y

  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
  • primary mirror — the mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light in a reflecting telescope
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primary stress — primary accent.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
  • psycho-somatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • psychosomatics — the study of psychosomatic conditions
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
  • pygmy marmoset — a related form, Cebuella pygmaea: the smallest monkey, inhabiting tropical forests of the Amazon
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
  • pyramid letter — chain letter.
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • simplistically — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
  • sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • supramaxillary — of or relating to the upper jaw
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • symptomatology — the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
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