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14-letter words containing p, a, s, d, c

  • disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
  • disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • liquid compass — wet compass.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
  • microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
  • ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pick's disease — a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability
  • picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
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