14-letter words containing r, a, p, l
- philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physical layer — (networking) Layer one, the lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The physical layer encompasses details such as electrical and mechanical connections to the network, transmission of binary data as changing voltage levels on wires or similar concepts on other connectors, and data rates. The physical layer is used by the data link layer. Example physical layer protocols are CSMA/CD, token ring and bus.
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
- pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
- pipeline break — (architecture) (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
- pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
- planar process — a method of producing diffused junctions in semiconductor devices. A pattern of holes is etched into an oxide layer formed on a silicon substrate, into which impurities are diffused through the holes
- plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
- planning board — development group
- plantain-eater — any of various touracos, erroneously believed to feed chiefly on plantains and bananas.
- plantar reflex — a normal reflex flexion of the toes, especially in persons above one year of age, resulting from stroking the sole of the foot.
- plasmapheresis — a type of apheresis in which blood cells are returned to the bloodstream of the donor and the plasma is used, as for tranfusion.
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
- platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- player-manager — In football and some other sports, a player-manager is a person who plays for a team and also manages the team.
- plaza de toros — a bullring.
- plea agreement — an agreement between the prosecution and defence, sometimes including the judge, in which the accused agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for more serious charges being dropped
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar equation — an equation in which the variables are polar coordinates.
- polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
- polar molecule — a molecule in which the centroid of the positive charges is different from the centroid of the negative charges.
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars