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14-letter words containing p, i, e, c, r

  • direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
  • direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
  • directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
  • disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • 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
  • erythropoietic — Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exercise price — Finance. the fixed price at which a person can exercise an option to buy or sell something, especially in a call or put option.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
  • export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
  • export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • 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
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • 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
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
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