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14-letter words containing p, c, e, l, t, i

  • 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.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
  • quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • restricted epl — (language)   (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
  • ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
  • sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
  • skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
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