14-letter words containing p, r, e, l, c, t
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- pre-calculated — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
- pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- 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.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- project leader — leader of a task or programme
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- 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.
- protocol layer — (networking) The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
- 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
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.