14-letter words containing d, i, p, s, y
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- 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
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
- 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.
- polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
- potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- 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.
- pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- skinny-dipping — to swim in the nude.
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- yuppie disease — any of a number of debilitating long-lasting viral disorders associated with stress, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, whose symptoms include muscle weakness, chronic tiredness, and depression