14-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- photolytically — in a photolytic manner, by photolytic means
- photooxidation — oxidation induced by light.
- photooxidative — of or relating to photooxidation
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
- phytogeography — the science dealing with the geographical relationships of plants.
- phytopathology — plant pathology.
- piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
- pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
- pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
- pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
- plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
- 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
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- plaza de toros — a bullring.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plenipotential — relating to a plenipotentiary
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- 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
- point estimate — the process of determining a single estimated value (point estimate) of a parameter of a given population.
- point mutation — a change in a single base in a nucleotide sequence.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- pointe-a-pitre — a seaport on central Guadeloupe, in the E West Indies.
- pointed domain — (theory) In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
- polar distance — codeclination.