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14-letter words containing p, a, y, t

  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • polarizability — to cause polarization in.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • porphyrization — reduction to a powder, formerly done on a slab of porphyry.
  • port authority — a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • postmastectomy — of or relating to the period after a mastectomy
  • potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
  • potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • preparatory to — as a preparation to; before
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
  • primary stress — primary accent.
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