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14-letter words containing s, a, l, r, y

  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
  • parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
  • parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
  • party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • people's party — a political party (1891–1904), advocating expansion of currency, state control of railroads, the placing of restrictions upon ownership of land, etc.; Populist party.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • 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.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • 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.
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • prayerlessness — the quality of being prayerless; the state of not praying
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • quality-assure — to ensure the quality of: Measures are in place to quality-assure our data.
  • quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
  • quartz crystal — a thin plate or rod cut in certain directions from a piece of piezoelectric quartz and accurately ground so that it vibrates at a particular frequency
  • quasi-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
  • read-only user — (jargon)   Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
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