14-letter words containing p, l, i, n
- apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
- applicableness — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
- appreciational — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
- armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
- at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
- backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
- balance spring — hairspring.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
- be in the loop — If someone is in the loop, they are part of a group of people who make decisions about important things, or they know about these decisions. If they are out of the loop, they do not make or know about important decisions.
- beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
- bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- bite one's lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- blaxploitation — a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
- blood spinning — a medical treatment, a use for which is the healing of sports-related injuries, that involves removing the platelet cells from the patient’s blood sample then injecting them into the injured area in order to speed recovery
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
- bone porcelain — bone china.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
- breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
- capitalization — the act of capitalizing
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrying place — portage (def 3).
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre