14-letter words containing e, l, i, c, o
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- 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-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- race relations — relationships between races
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
- recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus