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14-letter words containing p, i, l, o, n, d

  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
  • postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • 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-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • pull-down list — (operating system)   (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • 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.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • well-appointed — attractively equipped, arranged, or furnished, especially for comfort or convenience: a well-appointed room.
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
  • world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
  • zona pellucida — the transparent, noncellular layer surrounding the ovum of mammals, often having radial striations.
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