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14-letter words containing p, c, r

  • party official — an official of a political party
  • party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
  • pascal's wager — the argument put forth by Blaise Pascal that it is in one's best interest to believe in the existence of God, as it is a rational assumption and does no harm, and the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • passenger cell — the inside of a vehicle, in which people sit
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • patch together — assemble roughly
  • patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
  • patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
  • pax britannica — a peace imposed by Great Britain upon hostile nations, especially in the 19th century.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
  • pectinesterase — an enzyme present in plants, and some bacteria and fungi, which hydrolyses pectin
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • people carrier — large saloon car
  • people's court — small-claims court.
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceptibility — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • peripateticism — walking or traveling about; itinerant.
  • peritoneoscopy — an endoscopy examining the peritoneal cavity
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
  • persian carpet — a handwoven carpet or rug produced in Iran and characterized by fine warp and filling yarns, a usually tight, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of floral, foliate, animal, and avian designs woven in rich, harmonious colors.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
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