14-letter words containing d, e, s, p, i, c
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- independencies — Plural form of independency.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
- isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
- issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- muscle spindle — Cell Biology. a proprioceptor in skeletal muscle, composed of striated muscle fibers and sensory nerve endings in a connective tissue sheath, that conveys information via the spinal nerves on the state of muscle stretch, important in the reflex mechanism that maintains body posture.
- nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
- panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
- parish records — historical documents of a district
- 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.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- 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.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-classic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic