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14-letter words containing p, c, m, i

  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • pre-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
  • precompression — the act of compressing.
  • premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
  • prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • 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
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime computer — (company)   (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • processor time — (software)   The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
  • pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • psycho-somatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • 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.
  • psychosomatics — the study of psychosomatic conditions
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
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