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14-letter words containing i, n, s, p

  • paternity test — an assessment of possible paternity based on a comparison of the genetic markers of the offspring and those of the putative father.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • patrialisation — the process of patrialising
  • patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
  • pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
  • paying-in slip — a sheet in a paying-in book for writing down and keeping a record of a single deposit into an account
  • peano's axioms — a collection of axioms concerning the properties of the set of all positive integers, including the principle of mathematical induction.
  • pectinesterase — an enzyme present in plants, and some bacteria and fungi, which hydrolyses pectin
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
  • peremptoriness — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
  • perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • peritoneoscopy — an endoscopy examining the peritoneal cavity
  • permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • persian carpet — a handwoven carpet or rug produced in Iran and characterized by fine warp and filling yarns, a usually tight, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of floral, foliate, animal, and avian designs woven in rich, harmonious colors.
  • persian empire — Persia (def 1).
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • petrol station — A petrol station is a garage by the side of the road where petrol is sold and put into vehicles.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoria — a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
  • philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
  • philosophising — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • philosophizing — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • phosphoprotein — a protein, as casein or ovalbumin, in which one or more hydroxyl groups of serine, threonine, or tyrosine are hydroxylated.
  • photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
  • photosensitize — to make (a material) photosensitive, as by the application of a photosensitive emulsion.
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