15-letter words containing e, a, t, l, i
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
- planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
- plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
- point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- polynomial-time — (complexity) (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
- portable pixmap — (file format) (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
- post-apoplectic — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
- post-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- post-millennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
- pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- predicate logic — (logic) (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
- preequalization — preemphasis.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner