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14-letter words containing p, r, o, y, l, e

  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • people's party — a political party (1891–1904), advocating expansion of currency, state control of railroads, the placing of restrictions upon ownership of land, etc.; Populist party.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • periodontology — periodontics.
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
  • polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • preposterously — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • 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.
  • protoplanetary — of or relating to protoplanets
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • pseudoprostyle — having a colonnade at each end, either very close to the front wall or engaged in it.
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
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