14-letter words containing s, t, o, e, p
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
- posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
- postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
- posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- postmastectomy — of or relating to the period after a mastectomy
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- postmenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- pott's disease — caries of the bodies of the vertebrae, often resulting in marked curvature of the spine, and usually associated with a tuberculosis infection.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
- power struggle — fight to take control
- power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- power-on reset — (hardware) (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
- prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
- pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
- preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- predesignation — to designate beforehand.
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
- predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- prepositioning — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- preposterously — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- presentational — of or relating to presentation.
- pressoreceptor — a proprioceptor responding to changes of blood pressure.
- pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
- pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- pretensionless — without pretension
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.