14-letter words containing p, a, l, i, m, s
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- histoplasmosis — an infectious disease of the reticuloendothelial system, caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
- imparisyllabic — (of a noun) not composed of the same number of syllables in all of its inflected forms, as Latin corpus, corporis.
- impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
- kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
- metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.