14-letter words containing p, t, i, l, o, s
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
- post-classical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
- post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postcapitalist — denoting a period or society no longer based on capitalism
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postminimalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style in painting and sculpture developing in the 1970s, retaining the formal simplifications of minimal art, but striving to imbue works with a broad range of meaning and reference and often demonstrating a concern with craft and a kinship with tribal art and sculpture.
- postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
- potassium alum — alum1 (def 1).
- potassium-alum — Also called potash alum, potassium alum. a crystalline solid, aluminum potassium sulfate, K 2 SO 4 ⋅Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ⋅24H 2 O, used in medicine as an astringent and styptic, in dyeing and tanning, and in many technical processes.
- potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- presentational — of or relating to presentation.
- pretensionless — without pretension
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- pro-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
- proportionless — lacking proportion; disproportionate
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protistologist — a student of, or expert in, protistology
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
- psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
- pull-down list — (operating system) (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
- push down list — (programming) (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.