14-letter words containing p, o, s, t, d, r
- hydroscopicity — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
- hypothyroidism — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
- knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
- lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
- osteodystrophy — (medicine) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- photoperiodism — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
- plaza de toros — a bullring.
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
- porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- 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.
- postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
- postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
- postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
- postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- 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.
- predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- 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.
- prosthodontics — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- prosthodontist — a specialist in prosthodontics.