14-letter words containing c, l, a, n, s
- papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- parish council — local administrative body
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- passenger cell — the inside of a vehicle, in which people sit
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- 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.
- penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- percutaneously — through the skin
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
- planar process — a method of producing diffused junctions in semiconductor devices. A pattern of holes is etched into an oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate, into which impurities are diffused through the holes
- plastic piping — Plastic piping is strong, durable, and lightweight pipes, often made from high-density polyethylene.
- plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principal axis — Optics. a line passing through the center of the surface of a lens or spherical mirror and through the centers of curvature of all segments of the lens or mirror.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- race relations — relationships between races
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races