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14-letter words containing o, p, s, e

  • overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • overscrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • oversuspicious — too suspicious
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
  • paleomagnetism — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
  • paleontologist — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
  • palmetto state — South Carolina (used as a nickname).
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
  • pararosaniline — a colourless crystalline alcohol, a component of the red dye fuchsin, also used as a biological stain
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • pas de bourree — a short running step.
  • passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
  • pasteurellosis — hemorrhagic septicemia.
  • 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.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • 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.
  • paz estenssoro — Victor [beek-tawr] /ˈbik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1907–2001, Bolivian economist and statesman: president 1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89.
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • peano's axioms — a collection of axioms concerning the properties of the set of all positive integers, including the principle of mathematical induction.
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • people's court — small-claims court.
  • people's front — popular front.
  • people's panel — a group of people composed of members of the public, brought together to discuss, investigate, or decide on a particular matter
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