14-letter words containing p, r, e, i, l, y
- premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- 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 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.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
- pyramid letter — chain letter.
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- 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.
- serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
- shirley temple — Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
- slippery slope — a dangerous and irreversible course: the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.
- spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
- symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
- tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
- teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.