14-letter words containing s, o, l, e, t, c
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- 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
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- polite society — sophisticated company
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- 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.
- 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.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quetzalcoatlus — A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
- race relations — relationships between races
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
- school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
- schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- scotch thistle — a tall, prickly plant, Onopordum acanthium, native to Eurasia, having stems and leaves covered with cottony down and solitary purple flower heads: the national emblem of Scotland.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.