14-letter words containing p, a, r, t, l
- ballet slipper — a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
- blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
- blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
- bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
- 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.
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
- capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
- 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
- carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- catastrophical — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- 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
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- charge-a-plate — charge plate.
- chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
- chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
- chromatophilia — chromophilia.
- chromatophilic — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- circular pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.