14-letter words containing r, o, d, i, n
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perhydrogenize — perhydrogenate.
- periodontology — periodontics.
- peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- planning board — development group
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- ponderosa pine — Also called western yellow pine. a large pine, Pinus ponderosa, of western North America, having yellowish-brown bark: the state tree of Montana.
- pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
- postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
- postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- pre-depression — the act of depressing.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
- predesignation — to designate beforehand.
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- production run — all of the processes necessary to manufacture a certain product etc
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.