14-letter words containing d, e, p, n, i
- periodontology — periodontics.
- peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
- persian blinds — persiennes
- petit dejeuner — breakfast.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
- pidgin english — a pidgin language based on English formerly used in commerce in Chinese ports.
- piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- pineapple weed — an Asian plant, Matricaria matricarioides, naturalized in Europe and North America, having greenish-yellow flower heads, and smelling of pineapple when crushed: family Asteraceae (composites)
- piston-engined — powered by a piston engine
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pitching wedge — a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for short, lofted pitch shots
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- pointed domain — (theory) In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
- polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
- ponderosa pine — Also called western yellow pine. a large pine, Pinus ponderosa, of western North America, having yellowish-brown bark: the state tree of Montana.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- pre-delinquent — (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
- pre-depression — the act of depressing.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
- predesignation — to designate beforehand.
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity