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14-letter words containing p, a, n, d, r

  • garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
  • grande prairie — a city in W Alberta, in W Canada.
  • granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydroponically — Using hydroponics.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
  • john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
  • 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.
  • misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
  • modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • monoprionidian — having cells or sacs only on one half of the axis
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • nonpalindromic — Not palindromic.
  • 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.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
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