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

  • disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
  • dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • dispensational — Of or pertaining to dispensation.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
  • dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • epicontinental — Denoting those areas of sea or ocean overlying the continental shelf.
  • epigenetically — By means of, or in terms of, epigenesis or epigenetics.
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
  • exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • expansion slot — (hardware)   A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • floating point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floating-point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • galactic plane — the plane of the galactic equator.
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
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