14-letter words containing e, n, c, l, i, t
- organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
- orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
- osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
- 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
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- 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.
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- pneumatic pile — a hollow pile, used under water, in which a vacuum is induced so that air and water pressure force it into place.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- polar distance — codeclination.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- 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.
- principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- 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
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- quincentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 500 years.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- race relations — relationships between races
- 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.