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14-letter words containing p, i, t, c

  • postconception — happening after conception
  • postconvention — taking place after a convention
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • practice-teach — to work as a practice teacher.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-accredited — to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
  • pre-anticipate — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
  • pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precipitinogen — Immunology. an antigen that stimulates precipitin production or that reacts with antibody in an immunoprecipitation reaction.
  • precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
  • preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • preincarnation — a previous incarnation or an existence before incarnation.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • prescriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • primatological — relating to primatology
  • prime computer — (company)   (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
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