14-letter words containing l, i, p, a, r, t
- pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
- philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
- plantain-eater — any of various touracos, erroneously believed to feed chiefly on plantains and bananas.
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar equation — an equation in which the variables are polar coordinates.
- polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
- polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- popularization — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
- port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- 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
- 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.
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
- pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- pre-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
- 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.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- 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.