14-letter words containing p, a, r, t, s
- operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
- optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- orthophosphate — a salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid, or any compound containing the trivalent group −PO 4 .
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- paddle steamer — a vessel propelled by paddle wheels and driven by steam.
- paint stripper — Paint stripper is a liquid which you use in order to remove old paint from things such as doors or pieces of furniture.
- painted desert — a region in N central Arizona, E of the Colorado River: many-colored rock surfaces.
- panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper fastener — split pin
- paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
- paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
- para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
- paragrammatist — a person who makes paragrams
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- parasitic male — a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish
- parasitization — an infestation of or by parasites
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent message — (messaging) What a followup follows up.
- parent process — (operating system) The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
- parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- parking lights — the parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
- partners' desk — a desk constructed so that two people may work at it face-to-face, as one having a kneehole and drawers on two fronts.
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
- passenger list — register of all travellers on board
- passenger seat — vehicle: chair next to the driver
- passive-matrix — of or relating to a relatively low-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with low contrast, a type of flat-panel display.
- passport photo — image on identity document
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- pasteurellosis — hemorrhagic septicemia.
- pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- paternity suit — legal dispute over identity of father
- paternity test — an assessment of possible paternity based on a comparison of the genetic markers of the offspring and those of the putative father.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- patrialisation — the process of patrialising