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14-letter words containing l, y, c

  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • 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.
  • polite society — sophisticated company
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
  • polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • polyphonically — consisting of many voices or sounds.
  • polyphosphoric — as in polyphosphoric acid, any oxyacid of pentavalent phosphorus
  • 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.
  • pop psychology — beliefs about psychology, and about ways of applying psychology which are not based on science
  • pop-psychology — psychological or pseudopsychological counseling, interpretations, concepts, terminology, etc., often simplistic or superficial, popularized by certain personalities, magazine articles, television shows, advice columns, or the like, that influence the general public.
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
  • 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.
  • prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • propyl alcohol — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 8 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • protocol layer — (networking)   The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
  • prototypically — in a prototypical manner
  • proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • 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.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • psychophysical — the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
  • psychosocially — from a psychosocial point of view
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
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