14-letter words containing n, i, d, l
- persian blinds — persiennes
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
- picolinic acid — a crystalline acid. Formula: C6H5NO2
- pidgin english — a pidgin language based on English formerly used in commerce in Chinese ports.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pineapple weed — an Asian plant, Matricaria matricarioides, naturalized in Europe and North America, having greenish-yellow flower heads, and smelling of pineapple when crushed: family Asteraceae (composites)
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- planning board — development group
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
- polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
- 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.
- 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.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- pre-delinquent — (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
- pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
- promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
- 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.
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- pull-down list — (operating system) (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
- push down list — (programming) (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
- radicalization — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- 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.
- rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
- rational dress — long loose trousers gathered at the ankle and worn under a shorter skirt
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistillation — further distillation; purification of liquid through many distillations