14-letter words containing c, h, i, p, s, l
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
- metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nonphysiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
- oscillographic — Of or pertaining to an oscillograph.
- parish council — local administrative body
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
- 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.
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
- phillips screw — a screw having a cruciform slot into which a screwdriver with a cruciform point (Phillips screwdriver (trademark)) fits
- philosophistic — relating to a person who affects philosophical knowledge or to an affectation to philosophical knowledge or the action or enjoyment of carrying this out
- phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
- photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- 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.
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- 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.
- physical layer — (networking) Layer one, the lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The physical layer encompasses details such as electrical and mechanical connections to the network, transmission of binary data as changing voltage levels on wires or similar concepts on other connectors, and data rates. The physical layer is used by the data link layer. Example physical layer protocols are CSMA/CD, token ring and bus.
- phytosociology — the branch of ecology dealing with the origin, composition, structure, and classification of plant communities.
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polyphosphoric — as in polyphosphoric acid, any oxyacid of pentavalent phosphorus
- 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.
- port nicholson — the first British settlement in New Zealand, established on Wellington Harbour in 1840: grew into Wellington
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.