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15-letter words containing p, a, r, t, i, l

  • pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
  • planet-stricken — believed to be adversely affected mentally or physically by the planets
  • planimetrically — in a planimetric manner
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • platitudinarian — a person who frequently or habitually utters platitudes.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • political party — an organization of people who share the same views about the way power should be used in a country or society (through government, policy-making, etc)
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • predicate logic — (logic)   (Or "predicate calculus") An extension of propositional logic with separate symbols for predicates, subjects, and quantifiers. For example, where propositional logic might assign a single symbol P to the proposition "All men are mortal", predicate logic can define the predicate M(x) which asserts that the subject, x, is mortal and bind x with the universal quantifier ("For all"): All x . M(x) Higher-order predicate logic allows predicates to be the subjects of other predicates.
  • preequalization — preemphasis.
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
  • preimplantation — relating to the period before implantation in the uterus
  • prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
  • prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • principal parts — a set of inflected forms of a form class from which all the other inflected forms can be derived, as sing, sang, sung; smoke, smoked.
  • principal point — the point where a principal plane intersects the axis.
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • prittle-prattle — foolish or idle talk; babble
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pro-nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
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