14-letter words containing l, e, n, i, c
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
- preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- press clipping — clipping (def 2).
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- 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.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quincentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 500 years.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- race relations — relationships between races
- racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
- recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
- reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
- rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.