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14-letter words containing p, e, r, i, l, o

  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • erotic capital — the influence and earning power a person has as a result of his or her sexual attractiveness
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
  • expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter mom — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
  • hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
  • hierographical — hierographic
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
  • hyper-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypergolically — in a hypergolic manner
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
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