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14-letter words containing c, y, n, i, a

  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • phenologically — in a phenological manner
  • phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polyphonically — consisting of many voices or sounds.
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • 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.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • 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 company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
  • rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • scenic railway — a railroad that carries its passengers on a brief tour of an amusement park, resort, etc.
  • scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
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