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14-letter words containing p, e, r, n, d, i

  • 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.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • 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.
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • screen-printed — printed by screen process
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spending spree — a brief period of extravagant spending
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • tontine period — the stipulated period during which a tontine life assurance system is in operation
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • trade-in price — the price of a new article when a used article is given in part payment
  • trading period — A trading period is a set length of time, usually a number of weeks, months, quarters, or years, in which sales are measured and compared to previous periods.
  • un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
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