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14-letter words containing p, i, d, g

  • middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • mind-expanding — heightening perceptions in a hallucinatory way: mind-expanding drugs.
  • myocardiograph — an instrument for recording the movements of the heart.
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • paradigmatical — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • passenger side — the side of a car which is not the driver's side
  • payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
  • perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
  • perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • pidgin english — a pidgin language based on English formerly used in commerce in Chinese ports.
  • piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
  • pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • pin grid array — (hardware)   (PGA) A style of integrated circuit socket or pin-out with pins laid out on a square or rectangular grid with a separation of 0.1 inch in each direction. The pins near the centre of the array are often missing. PGA is often used on motherboards for processors, e.g. Socket 6 and Socket 8. PPGA is "plastic PGA" (as opposed to ceramic?). See also SPGA.
  • piston-engined — powered by a piston engine
  • pitching wedge — a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for short, lofted pitch shots
  • planning board — development group
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • poison dogwood — poison sumac.
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • potbellied pig — a type of small, dark, domesticated pig with a lighter band running around its middle, native to Vietnam and sometimes kept as a pet.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
  • propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
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