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14-letter words containing p, a, l, o, c

  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
  • plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • polar molecule — a molecule in which the centroid of the positive charges is different from the centroid of the negative charges.
  • polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
  • police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • politicization — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
  • polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polyphonically — consisting of many voices or sounds.
  • 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.
  • porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
  • port charlotte — a town in SW Florida.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
  • post-classical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
  • post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postcapitalist — denoting a period or society no longer based on capitalism
  • postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
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