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14-letter words containing p, l, y, m

  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • plymouth sound — an inlet of the English Channel in SW Devon, SW England
  • police academy — a school for training police officers
  • poly-syllogism — an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one.
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polymorphously — in a polymorphous manner
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
  • primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
  • pyramid letter — chain letter.
  • pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • shirley temple — Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
  • simplistically — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
  • sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • supramaxillary — of or relating to the upper jaw
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • symptomatology — the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
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