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14-letter words containing i, n, y

  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
  • pin grid array — (hardware)   (PGA) A style of integrated circuit socket or pin-out with pins laid out on a square or rectangular grid with a separation of 0.1 inch in each direction. The pins near the centre of the array are often missing. PGA is often used on motherboards for processors, e.g. Socket 6 and Socket 8. PPGA is "plastic PGA" (as opposed to ceramic?). See also SPGA.
  • 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.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • point-by-point — detailed and deliberate; taking every point into consideration
  • policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • polyphonically — consisting of many voices or sounds.
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
  • porphyrization — reduction to a powder, formerly done on a slab of porphyry.
  • porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • 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.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
  • proportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • protoporphyrin — a type of porphyrin that, when combined with an iron atom, forms haem, the oxygen-bearing prosthetic group of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
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