14-letter words containing p, e, r, t
- 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
- fingerpointing — Alternative form of finger-pointing.
- fingerprinting — Present participle of fingerprint.
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- 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
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
- frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- generation gap — a lack of communication between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, brought about by differences of tastes, values, outlook, etc.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- genre painting — a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- 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.
- grass parakeet — any of several Australian parakeets, especially the budgerigar.
- great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
- great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- 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.
- gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- headmastership — The role or position of headmaster.