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14-letter words containing p, y

  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • astigmatoscopy — examination by means of an astigmatoscope.
  • astrophysicist — An astrophysicist is someone who studies astrophysics.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
  • autocoprophagy — the consumption of one's own faeces
  • autopolyploidy — having more than two haploid sets of chromosomes that are derived from the same ancestral species.
  • autotypography — a process in which drawings are executed on gelatin before being impressed on a soft metal plate to allow for printing
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
  • bachelor party — A bachelor party is a party for a man who is getting married very soon, to which only men are invited.
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
  • bay psalm book — a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America.
  • beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
  • beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • beyond dispute — not open to dispute or question; settled
  • bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
  • binary package — (software)   An archive file that contains all files and directories that must be installed in order to make a working installation of the program(s) included in the package, and the maintainer scripts necessary for the installation. A binary package is usually specific to a certain platform, in contrast to a source package.
  • birthday party — a party to celebrate someone's birthday
  • bitmap display — (hardware)   A computer output device where each pixel displayed on the monitor screen corresponds directly to one or more bits in the computer's video memory. Such a display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a pixel involves only a single processor write to memory compared with a terminal or VDU connected via a serial line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at which the display can be changed. Most modern personal computers and workstations have bitmap displays, allowing the efficient use of graphical user interfaces, interactive graphics and a choice of on-screen fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics operations to dedicated hardware such as graphics accelerators. The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?) computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly after the Second World War. This used a storage tube as its working memory. Phosphor dots were used to store single bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted as binary numbers.
  • black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • britney spears — beers
  • bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
  • business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • call into play — to begin to operate
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • canary creeper — a climbing plant, Tropaeolum peregrinum, similar to the nasturtium but with smaller yellow flowers and lobed leaves
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
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