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14-letter words containing p, r, e, c, s

  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
  • emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exercise price — Finance. the fixed price at which a person can exercise an option to buy or sell something, especially in a call or put option.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
  • hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • heterostrophic — (of a shell) twisting or turning in a different direction
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
  • hyperparasitic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperparasitism.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hyperresonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
  • hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
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