14-letter words containing r, a, y, c
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- oxymoronically — in an oxymoronic way
- oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
- parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
- paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
- paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parametrically — in terms of a parameter
- parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
- party official — an official of a political party
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- percutaneously — through the skin
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- peroxy-radical — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- 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).
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
- polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.