14-letter words containing s, p, i
- pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- pierian spring — a fountain in Pieria, sacred to the Muses and supposedly conferring inspiration or learning on anyone who drank from it.
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pigging string — (in rodeo calf roping) a short length of rope used to bind a calf's legs after it is lassoed.
- 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.
- pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- pipeline stall — pipeline break
- piston-engined — powered by a piston engine
- pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
- pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
- 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.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- 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
- plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pneumoconiosis — any chronic lung disease, including anthracosis, asbestosis, and silicosis, caused by the inhalation of particles of coal, asbestos, silica, or similar substances and leading to fibrosis and loss of lung function.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- 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.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- point estimate — the process of determining a single estimated value (point estimate) of a parameter of a given population.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- pointing stick — TrackPoint
- poison dogwood — poison sumac.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- 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.