14-letter words containing a, p, o, c, r, y
- monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
- myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
- myocardiopathy — (pathology) Any disease of the myocardium.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
- paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
- 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.
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
- percutaneously — through the skin
- 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.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- 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.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
- 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.
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- 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 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.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- propyl alcohol — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 8 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protocol layer — (networking) The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
- prototypically — in a prototypical manner
- psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.