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14-letter words containing a, r, m, o, p, l

  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • modular prolog — An interpreter for SB-Prolog version 3.1 extended with ML-style modules. Runs on SPARC. Distributed under GNU General Public License.
  • monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
  • monopropellant — a substance for propelling rockets that is a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • nonpalindromic — Not palindromic.
  • normal pentane — pentane (def 2).
  • normal-pentane — a hydrocarbon of the methane series, existing in three liquid isomeric forms.
  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • open classroom — a spacious instructional area shared by several groups or classes in elementary school, permitting more individualized, less supervised project learning and movement of pupils from one activity to another.
  • 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.
  • ophthalmometer — an instrument for measuring the reflection of an image on the surface of the cornea and other capacities of the eye, used chiefly for determining the presence and degree of astigmatism.
  • ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • overcompliance — excessive compliance
  • overcomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • 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.
  • parallel axiom — the axiom in Euclidean geometry that only one line can be drawn through a given point so that the line is parallel to a given line that does not contain the point.
  • parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopoeial — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • 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
  • polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
  • polar molecule — a molecule in which the centroid of the positive charges is different from the centroid of the negative charges.
  • 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.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
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