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14-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i

  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
  • erotic capital — the influence and earning power a person has as a result of his or her sexual attractiveness
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exempli gratia — for the sake of example
  • experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • 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
  • family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • general public — people in general
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • gilbert pattenGilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
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