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14-letter words containing p, a, e, d, o

  • mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
  • modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
  • myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
  • nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • nonrepudiation — (legal) Assurance that a contract cannot later be denied by either of the parties involved.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • open deathtrap — (abuse)   An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
  • open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
  • openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
  • operation code — (programming)   (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
  • ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • overprogrammed — characterized by overprogramming
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • 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
  • page mode dram — Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • palaeopedology — the study of ancient soils
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • pantomime dame — an exaggerated comedic female character in a pantomime played by a male actor
  • para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • pas de bourree — a short running step.
  • passenger door — a car door that is used by a passenger
  • pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • 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).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • penalty double — business double.
  • pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
  • permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
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