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14-letter words containing s, i, l

  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petrol station — A petrol station is a garage by the side of the road where petrol is sold and put into vehicles.
  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
  • philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
  • philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
  • phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
  • phillips screw — a screw having a cruciform slot into which a screwdriver with a cruciform point (Phillips screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • 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
  • philosophising — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • philosophistic — relating to a person who affects philosophical knowledge or to an affectation to philosophical knowledge or the action or enjoyment of carrying this out
  • philosophizing — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • phosphorolysis — any reaction where chemical bonds are broken down by phosphoric acid or phosphate
  • phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
  • photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
  • photogeologist — a person who studies or has a profession in photogeology
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • 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.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
  • 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.
  • phytosociology — the branch of ecology dealing with the origin, composition, structure, and classification of plant communities.
  • pickled onions — onions which have been preserved in vinegar or brine
  • pidgin english — a pidgin language based on English formerly used in commerce in Chinese ports.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pigs might fly — If you say 'pigs might fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • pipeline stall — pipeline break
  • placido's disk — a device marked with concentric black rings, used to detect corneal irregularities.
  • plain speaking — expressing oneself directly
  • planning stage — the stage of a project when it is still being planned
  • planta genista — a representation of a sprig of broom: used as a badge of the Plantagenets.
  • plasmapheresis — a type of apheresis in which blood cells are returned to the bloodstream of the donor and the plasma is used, as for tranfusion.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plastic piping — Plastic piping is strong, durable, and lightweight pipes, often made from high-density polyethylene.
  • plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
  • plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
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