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

  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • pneumatic pile — a hollow pile, used under water, in which a vacuum is induced so that air and water pressure force it into place.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • polar equation — an equation in which the variables are polar coordinates.
  • polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • 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
  • 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
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
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