14-letter words containing c, i, e, l
- parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- parquet circle — parterre (def 1).
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- 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
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- people carrier — large saloon car
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perceptibility — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
- peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- 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.
- 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.
- phenologically — in a phenological manner
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- 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
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).