14-letter words containing p, l, o, i
- apologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- apoplectically — of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
- aposematically — in an aposematic manner
- apothegmatical — Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
- apotropaically — in an apotropaic manner
- apple polisher — a sycophant; toady
- apple-polisher — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
- appreciational — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- approach light — one of a series of lights installed along the projected centerline of an airport runway to assist a pilot in aligning the aircraft during the approach to landing at night.
- apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
- archiepiscopal — of or associated with an archbishop
- arctic redpoll — a finch, Carduelis hornemanni, of the family Fringillidae, which breeds in tundra birch forest
- 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.
- arthroplasties — Plural form of arthroplasty.
- 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
- asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
- 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.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
- 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.
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- bishops' bible — an English translation of the Bible made under the direction of Matthew Parker and published in 1568: the recognized translation of the Bible in England until the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611.
- 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
- blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
- block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
- 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
- bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- 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.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe