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14-letter words containing p, a, n, e, l, d

  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
  • 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.
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
  • peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
  • permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • pineapple weed — an Asian plant, Matricaria matricarioides, naturalized in Europe and North America, having greenish-yellow flower heads, and smelling of pineapple when crushed: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • plagal cadence — a cadence in which the chord of the tonic is preceded by that of the subdominant.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • pool attendant — a person who keeps watch at a swimming pool, and rescues anyone in danger of drowning
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pyrazolone dye — any of the group of dyes, as tartrazine, derived from a pyrazolone: used chiefly to dye silk and wool.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • 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.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
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