14-letter words containing d, i, p
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- 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.
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
- peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
- 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
- pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
- perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- periodic group — (database) (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
- periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
- periodontology — periodontics.
- peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
- peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- persian blinds — persiennes
- petit dejeuner — breakfast.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photoinduction — the act or process of being photoinduced
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photooxidation — oxidation induced by light.
- photooxidative — of or relating to photooxidation
- photoperiodism — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- 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
- picolinic acid — a crystalline acid. Formula: C6H5NO2
- picture editor — someone whose job is to deal with the photographs and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine
- picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
- 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.
- pin grid array — (hardware) (PGA) A style of integrated circuit socket or pin-out with pins laid out on a square or rectangular grid with a separation of 0.1 inch in each direction. The pins near the centre of the array are often missing. PGA is often used on motherboards for processors, e.g. Socket 6 and Socket 8. PPGA is "plastic PGA" (as opposed to ceramic?). See also SPGA.
- 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 and putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
- 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.