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14-letter words containing i, l, d

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
  • placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
  • planning board — development group
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
  • possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
  • postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
  • potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
  • potbellied pig — a type of small, dark, domesticated pig with a lighter band running around its middle, native to Vietnam and sometimes kept as a pet.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • pre-delinquent — (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • pre-sterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-classic — falsely or spuriously classic.
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