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14-letter words containing o, r, e, d, s, i

  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • oxidoreductase — any of a class of enzymes that act as a catalyst, some of them conjointly, causing the oxidation and reduction of compounds.
  • 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
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • photoperiodism — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • 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.
  • ponderosa pine — Also called western yellow pine. a large pine, Pinus ponderosa, of western North America, having yellowish-brown bark: the state tree of Montana.
  • possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
  • post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
  • post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
  • postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
  • postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • pre-depression — the act of depressing.
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • radio cassette — A radio cassette is a radio and a cassette player together in a single machine.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
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