14-letter words containing c, i, s, p, e
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
- plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
- 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
- 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.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pneumoconiosis — any chronic lung disease, including anthracosis, asbestosis, and silicosis, caused by the inhalation of particles of coal, asbestos, silica, or similar substances and leading to fibrosis and loss of lung function.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
- polite society — sophisticated company
- 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.
- popping crease — a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- postconception — happening after conception
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
- prairie crocus — a spring flower of the buttercup family
- 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.
- pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precious coral — red coral.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications