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14-letter words containing a, p, r, o, s

  • operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
  • orphan process — (operating system)   A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
  • orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
  • orthophosphate — a salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid, or any compound containing the trivalent group −PO 4 .
  • oscillographic — Of or pertaining to an oscillograph.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • papillomavirus — any of several viruses of the family Papovaviridae, containing circular DNA, causing papillomas in various animals and responsible for human genital warts.
  • parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
  • parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
  • pararosaniline — a colourless crystalline alcohol, a component of the red dye fuchsin, also used as a biological stain
  • parasitization — an infestation of or by parasites
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • 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.
  • parish council — local administrative body
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
  • parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • 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.
  • party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
  • pas de bourree — a short running step.
  • passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
  • passport photo — image on identity document
  • pasteurellosis — hemorrhagic septicemia.
  • pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • patrialisation — the process of patrialising
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • paz estenssoro — Victor [beek-tawr] /ˈbik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1907–2001, Bolivian economist and statesman: president 1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89.
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
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