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

  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
  • quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
  • railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
  • retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
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