14-letter words containing p, r, e, i, o
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
- property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
- proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
- proportionless — lacking proportion; disproportionate
- proportionment — the act of proportioning.
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- proprioception — perception governed by proprioceptors, as awareness of the position of one's body.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- 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.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- protocontinent — an actual or hypothetical landmass that might later be enlarged into a major continent or broken up into smaller ones.
- protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- 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.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- 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.
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- quick response — fast reaction time