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14-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l, a

  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • hypostatically — In a hypostatic manner.
  • impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • incapabilities — not capable.
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
  • kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
  • lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
  • lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
  • lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
  • lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • local politics — political activity at local level, as opposed to national politics
  • lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
  • lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
  • metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
  • metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
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