14-letter words containing p, e, n, d, a
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
- predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
- preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
- propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
- prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
- pyrazolone dye — any of the group of dyes, as tartrazine, derived from a pyrazolone: used chiefly to dye silk and wool.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
- saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
- san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
- sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
- self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
- south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
- space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
- spangled glass — an American art glass having flakes of mica in a layer of clear glass flashed with colored glass.