14-letter words containing p, r, o, y, l
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- party official — an official of a political party
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- 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.
- phosphorolysis — any reaction where chemical bonds are broken down by phosphoric acid or phosphate
- phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
- 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
- platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
- 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
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- 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.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- 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.
- polymorphously — in a polymorphous manner
- polyphosphoric — as in polyphosphoric acid, any oxyacid of pentavalent phosphorus
- 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.
- postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
- 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.