14-letter words containing p, r, o, n, t
- at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
- autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
- autotransplant — autograft.
- bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
- beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
- bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- captain cooker — a wild pig
- carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
- cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
- carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cine projector — a machine which projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
- co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
- colour printer — a printer that prints in colour on paper
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- compromisation — The act of compromising.
- conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
- conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
- conduct report — a report about the behaviour of a student, employee, prisoner etc
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- conscriptional — of or relating to conscription