14-letter words containing o, n, a, p
- parole hearing — a panel of people who decide whether to free a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired, on the condition that he or she is of good behaviour
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- participaction — (in Canada) a non-profit-making organization set up to promote physical fitness
- partition line — a plain or figured edge between two adjacent areas of an escutcheon, between an ordinary and the field of an escutcheon, or between two adjacent ordinaries.
- passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- passion sunday — the fifth Sunday in Lent, being the second week before Easter.
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patrialisation — the process of patrialising
- patrialization — the process of patrializing
- pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
- paz estenssoro — Victor [beek-tawr] /ˈbik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1907–2001, Bolivian economist and statesman: president 1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89.
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- peano's axioms — a collection of axioms concerning the properties of the set of all positive integers, including the principle of mathematical induction.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
- penalty double — business double.
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
- pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
- people's panel — a group of people composed of members of the public, brought together to discuss, investigate, or decide on a particular matter
- percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
- percutaneously — through the skin
- perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
- peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
- permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbational — relating to perturbation
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- petrol station — A petrol station is a garage by the side of the road where petrol is sold and put into vehicles.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phantasmagoria — a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
- phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
- phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenologically — in a phenological manner
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.