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15-letter words containing p, y, a, t, i

  • play havoc with — bring chaos to
  • plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
  • political party — an organization of people who share the same views about the way power should be used in a country or society (through government, policy-making, etc)
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polynomial-time — (complexity)   (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.
  • postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • postulationally — in a postulational manner
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • prairie oysters — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • primary contact — a communication or relationship between people that is characterized by intimacy and personal familiarity.
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
  • primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
  • primary storage — main memory
  • primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • proportionality — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • proportionately — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • proprietorially — in the manner of a proprietor
  • propylitization — the alteration of igneous rock to propylite
  • proteolytically — by a proteolytic process
  • proximity talks — a diplomatic process whereby an impartial representative acts as go-between for two opposing parties who are willing to attend the same conference but unwilling to meet face to face
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • pyramidal tract — any of four tracts of descending motor fibers that extend in pairs down each side of the spinal column and function in voluntary movement.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
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