14-letter words containing s, p, o, r, i
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- oversuspicious — too suspicious
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
- panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
- papillomavirus — any of several viruses of the family Papovaviridae, containing circular DNA, causing papillomas in various animals and responsible for human genital warts.
- parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
- pararosaniline — a colourless crystalline alcohol, a component of the red dye fuchsin, also used as a biological stain
- parasitization — an infestation of or by parasites
- parish council — local administrative body
- parish records — historical documents of a district
- parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- pasteurellosis — hemorrhagic septicemia.
- pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patrialisation — the process of patrialising
- 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.
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
- percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
- peremptoriness — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- peritoneoscopy — an endoscopy examining the peritoneal cavity
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- 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.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
- petrol station — A petrol station is a garage by the side of the road where petrol is sold and put into vehicles.
- petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phantasmagoria — a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
- phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- 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.