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

  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
  • dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dragging piece — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • drop-in centre — (in Britain) a daycentre run by the social services or a charity that clients may attend on an informal basis
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • electric piano — a piano operated by electrical means
  • electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
  • ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
  • epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
  • epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
  • epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • 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
  • erythropoiesis — The production of red blood cells.
  • erythropoietic — Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
  • erythropoietin — A hormone secreted by the kidneys that increases the rate of production of red blood cells in response to falling levels of oxygen in the tissues.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
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