14-letter words containing a, p, r, e, t
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- packet writing — (storage) A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
- paddle steamer — a vessel propelled by paddle wheels and driven by steam.
- paint stripper — Paint stripper is a liquid which you use in order to remove old paint from things such as doors or pieces of furniture.
- painted desert — a region in N central Arizona, E of the Colorado River: many-colored rock surfaces.
- painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- paleontography — the formal description of fossils
- palmatipartite — having leaves that are laterally divided halfway to the petiole
- pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
- panamint range — mountain range in SE Calif., forming the W rim of Death Valley: highest peak, 11,045 ft (3,367 m)
- pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- panic reaction — a widespread and excessive response of panic
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper fastener — split pin
- paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
- paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
- para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
- parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
- parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
- parametrically — in terms of a parameter
- parasitic male — a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- 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).
- parent message — (messaging) What a followup follows up.
- parent process — (operating system) The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
- parental leave — a leave of absence from a job for a parent to care for a new baby.
- parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
- parquet circle — parterre (def 1).
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
- participialize — to form (a word) into a participle; make participial.
- 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.
- particularized — individualized
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- partition line — a plain or figured edge between two adjacent areas of an escutcheon, between an ordinary and the field of an escutcheon, or between two adjacent ordinaries.
- partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
- partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.