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16-letter words containing p, e, l, i, t

  • physical therapy — the treatment or management of physical disability, malfunction, or pain by exercise, massage, hydrotherapy, etc., without the use of medicines, surgery, or radiation.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • piezoelectricity — electricity, or electric polarity, produced by the piezoelectric effect.
  • pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
  • pineal apparatus — a median outgrowth of the roof of the diencephalon in vertebrates that in some develops into the pineal eye and in others into the pineal gland.
  • pit bull terrier — American Staffordshire terrier.
  • pitch-cone angle — (in a bevel gear) the apex angle of the truncated cone (pitch cone) which forms the reference surface on which the teeth of a bevel gear are cut
  • place in the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • plaster of paris — calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • polar coordinate — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • police constable — police officer
  • police inspector — rank of police officer in the UK
  • policy committee — a group of people who provide ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • political system — a coordinated set of principles, laws, ideas, and procedures relating to a particular form of government, or the form of government itself: Democracy is a political system in which citizens govern themselves.
  • polycondensation — formation of a polymer by chemical condensation with the elimination of a small molecule, such as water.
  • polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
  • portable airtime — (communications, wireless)   A wireless, digital communications system enabling user-to-user voice communication, "quicknotes", and alphanumeric messaging.
  • portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
  • portrait gallery — a gallery where pictures are displayed
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • post-pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
  • pourriture noble — noble rot.
  • powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
  • practical effect — Usually, practical effects. a special effect that is created live on the set of a film, using real-world objects.
  • practical reason — (in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.
  • pre-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • precontemplation — the act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
  • predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • principal rafter — a diagonal member of a roof principal, usually forming part of a truss and supporting the purlins on which the common rafters rest.
  • private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
  • private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
  • privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • project planning — project management
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
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