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14-letter words containing p, o, l, i, e

  • bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • 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.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • 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
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
  • cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
  • cleptoparasite — Alternative spelling of kleptoparasite.
  • clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coeliac plexus — the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs
  • colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
  • colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
  • compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
  • compassionless — having no compassion
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
  • complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
  • complexionless — (of a person's face) pale
  • complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
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