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14-letter words containing p, u, c, i, n

  • pneumoconiosis — any chronic lung disease, including anthracosis, asbestosis, and silicosis, caused by the inhalation of particles of coal, asbestos, silica, or similar substances and leading to fibrosis and loss of lung function.
  • pneumoconiotic — a person who suffers from pneumoconiosis
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
  • postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precociousness — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • production run — all of the processes necessary to manufacture a certain product etc
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • public inquiry — an official enquiry, usually into a serious accident or other disaster, or into planning applications. Interested parties can attend, and contribute.
  • public opinion — the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
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