14-letter words containing p, o, n, d, e
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- pre-depression — the act of depressing.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
- preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
- predesignation — to designate beforehand.
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
- preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
- propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
- prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
- pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- pull-down menu — (operating system) (Or "drop-down menu", "pop-down menu") A menu in a graphical user interface, whose title is normally visible but whose contents are revealed only when the user activates it, normally by pressing the mouse button while the pointer is over the title, whereupon the menu items appear below the title. The user may then select an item from the menu or click elsewhere, in either case the menu contents are hidden again. A menu item is selected either by dragging the mouse from the menu title to the item and releasing or by clicking the title and then the item. When a pull-down menu appears in the main area of a window, as opposed to the menu bar, it may have a small, downward-pointing triangle to the right. Compare: scrollable list.
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- pyrazolone dye — any of the group of dyes, as tartrazine, derived from a pyrazolone: used chiefly to dye silk and wool.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange