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

  • standard pitch — concert pitch
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • starting point — place where sth begins
  • starting price — gambling odds
  • steganographer — an expert in steganography
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • stopping train — a train that stops at local stations as well as the main ones
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • streptodornase — a deoxyribonuclease, obtained from hemolytic streptococci, used in medicine for decomposing blood clots and fibrinous and purulent matter.
  • stress pattern — the way syllables are stressed in a word, phrase, language, etc
  • strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
  • superannuation — the act of superannuating.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superterranean — situated, or living, on the earth's surface
  • supra-national — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • taínaron, cape — Matapan
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tape transport — transport (def 12).
  • tarpon springs — a town in W Florida.
  • temper tantrum — tantrum.
  • temperamentful — full of temperament
  • temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.
  • terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
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