14-letter words containing c, o, p, l
- photolytically — in a photolytic manner, by photolytic means
- 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.
- phytosociology — the branch of ecology dealing with the origin, composition, structure, and classification of plant communities.
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picolinic acid — a crystalline acid. Formula: C6H5NO2
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
- plagiocephalic — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- 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
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- 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
- plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
- 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.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- 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.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar molecule — a molecule in which the centroid of the positive charges is different from the centroid of the negative charges.
- 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 academy — a school for training police officers
- 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 officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
- 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
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- polite society — sophisticated company
- politicization — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.