14-letter words containing p, e, c, t, o
- overprotection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
- overprotective — unduly protective.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- palaeoclimatic — relating to the climate of a prehistoric age
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- panic reaction — a widespread and excessive response of panic
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
- parent process — (operating system) The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
- patch together — assemble roughly
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
- pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
- penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
- pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
- people's court — small-claims court.
- percutaneously — through the skin
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- 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.
- 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.
- permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
- 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.
- petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
- photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photoelectrode — an electrode that, following the absorption of light, can initialize electrochemical transformations
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction