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14-letter words containing r, e, l, c, t, i

  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • 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.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • 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.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
  • 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.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • 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
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
  • quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quality circle — a group of workers performing similar duties who meet periodically to discuss work-related problems, offer suggestions for improved production or product quality, etc.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
  • recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
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