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

  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • 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.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
  • 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.
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
  • permanent mold — a reusable metal mold used for making a large number of identical castings.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • pointed domain — (theory)   In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
  • 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-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • 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.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • 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.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • 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.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • 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.
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
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