14-letter words containing a, p, i, c, o, l
- parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
- paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parish council — local administrative body
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
- party official — an official of a political party
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- pathologically — of or relating to pathology.
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- people carrier — large saloon car
- periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharmacopoeial — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- phenologically — in a phenological manner
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
- photocatalytic — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photolytically — in a photolytic manner, by photolytic means
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
- picolinic acid — a crystalline acid. Formula: C6H5NO2
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
- plagiocephalic — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
- plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.