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14-letter words containing r, o, s, i, e, l

  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • philosopheress — a philosopher who is a woman
  • 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.
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plesiochronous — (communications)   Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • 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.
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • 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.
  • pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
  • precious coral — red coral.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • presentational — of or relating to presentation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • proportionless — lacking proportion; disproportionate
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
  • pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • rational dress — long loose trousers gathered at the ankle and worn under a shorter skirt
  • rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
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