14-letter words containing p, i, t, c
- petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philosophistic — relating to a person who affects philosophical knowledge or to an affectation to philosophical knowledge or the action or enjoyment of carrying this out
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
- phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
- photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
- photocatalytic — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
- photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photoinduction — the act or process of being photoinduced
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- photolytically — in a photolytic manner, by photolytic means
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- photoreception — the physiological perception of light.
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- photosynthetic — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
- phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
- phytosociology — the branch of ecology dealing with the origin, composition, structure, and classification of plant communities.
- piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
- picking ticket — A picking ticket is a list used for gathering items to be shipped from a store or warehouse.
- picture editor — someone whose job is to deal with the photographs and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- picture puzzle — jigsaw puzzle (def 1).
- picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
- picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- piece of eight — peso (def 4).
- piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- pitch and putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.