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

  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • cape canaveral — a cape on the E coast of Florida: site of the US Air Force Missile Test Centre, from which the majority of US space missions have been launched
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carrying place — portage (def 3).
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
  • chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • conscriptional — of or relating to conscription
  • conspirational — of or relating to conspiration
  • conspiratorial — If someone does something such as speak or smile in a conspiratorial way, they do it in a way that suggests they are sharing a secret with someone.
  • conspiratorily — In a conspiratory manner.
  • constraintlisp — (language)   An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
  • contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • critical point — the point on a phase diagram that represents the critical state of a substance
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • cryptanalytics — cryptanalysis (def 1).
  • cryptoanalysis — cryptanalysis.
  • cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
  • depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.
  • depersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalize.
  • depersonalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depersonalize.
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