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14-letter words containing e, y, p, i

  • exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • exploitability — The state or condition of being exploitable.
  • exploitatively — In an exploitative manner.
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
  • extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
  • eye specialist — ophthalmologist
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • fiery-tempered — easily angered
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
  • friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • geopolitically — According to geopolitics.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
  • health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
  • heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
  • hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
  • hepatotoxicity — Toxicity that damages the liver.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydronephrosis — dilation of the branches and pelvic cavity of the kidney, caused by an accumulation of urine resulting from obstruction of normal outflow.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydroperoxides — Plural form of hydroperoxide.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
  • hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
  • hyper-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • hyper-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperaesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
  • hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
  • hyperbarically — in a hyperbaric manner
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
  • hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • hypercalcaemia — a heightened level of calcium in the blood
  • hypercalcaemic — of or relating to hypercalcaemia
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