14-letter words containing p, a, c, m, n
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- ship's company — company (def 11).
- simple machine — machine (def 3b).
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
- sparring match — a practice boxing match
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- supermasculine — highly masculine
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.