14-letter words containing i, s, o, l, a
- plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
- plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- 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.
- pontius pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
- post-classical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
- post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postcapitalist — denoting a period or society no longer based on capitalism
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- 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.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postminimalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style in painting and sculpture developing in the 1970s, retaining the formal simplifications of minimal art, but striving to imbue works with a broad range of meaning and reference and often demonstrating a concern with craft and a kinship with tribal art and sculpture.
- 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.
- potassium alum — alum1 (def 1).
- potassium-alum — Also called potash alum, potassium alum. a crystalline solid, aluminum potassium sulfate, K 2 SO 4 ⋅Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ⋅24H 2 O, used in medicine as an astringent and styptic, in dyeing and tanning, and in many technical processes.
- 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.
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- precious coral — red coral.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- presentational — of or relating to presentation.
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- pro-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results