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14-letter words containing p, a, y, n, d

  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indemnity plan — An indemnity plan is a healthcare plan that allows policyholders to choose any healthcare provider they wish, and charges them a fee depending on the rules of the policy.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • london company — a company, chartered in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America, that founded Jamestown, Va., in 1607.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • ordinary point — Mathematics. a point in a domain in which a given function of a complex variable is analytic.
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • passion sunday — the fifth Sunday in Lent, being the second week before Easter.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
  • payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
  • penalty double — business double.
  • penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • pin grid array — (hardware)   (PGA) A style of integrated circuit socket or pin-out with pins laid out on a square or rectangular grid with a separation of 0.1 inch in each direction. The pins near the centre of the array are often missing. PGA is often used on motherboards for processors, e.g. Socket 6 and Socket 8. PPGA is "plastic PGA" (as opposed to ceramic?). See also SPGA.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pyrazolone dye — any of the group of dyes, as tartrazine, derived from a pyrazolone: used chiefly to dye silk and wool.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • redundancy pay — severance pay.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
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