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14-letter words containing d, i, p, a, n, s

  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • passenger side — the side of a car which is not the driver's side
  • passion sunday — the fifth Sunday in Lent, being the second week before Easter.
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • 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
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • 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.
  • position audit — a systematic assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of an organization as a prerequisite for future strategic planning
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
  • prawn-sandwich — characterizing or belonging to the type of spectator at a football match who is motivated to attend more by the corporate hospitality available than a true devotion to a particular club
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • 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.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
  • spanish armada — Armada (def 1).
  • spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
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