14-letter words containing r, l, e, s
- 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.
- polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
- portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- power struggle — fight to take control
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- prayerlessness — the quality of being prayerless; the state of not praying
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- pre-sterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
- precious coral — red coral.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- preposterously — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- presentational — of or relating to presentation.
- presentimental — expressing a presentiment
- press clipping — clipping (def 2).
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- pretensionless — without pretension
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- 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.
- probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- process colour — any of the four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) used in process printing
- processability — capable of being processed.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.