14-letter words containing c, l, e, p, t, o
- 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
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- 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.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- project leader — leader of a task or programme
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protocol layer — (networking) The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
- roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- social chapter — The social chapter is an agreement between countries in the European Union concerning workers' rights and working conditions.
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- space platform — space station.
- specialisation — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
- sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
- spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
- split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.