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14-letter words containing l, o, i, p, e

  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • 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
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • pseudo-classic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
  • pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
  • railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
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