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14-letter words containing s, t, p

  • 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.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • plaza de toros — a bullring.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • 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.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • plymouth sound — an inlet of the English Channel in SW Devon, SW England
  • pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
  • 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
  • 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
  • polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • pontius pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
  • pontus euxinus — a sea between Europe and Asia, bordered by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Russian Federation. 164,000 sq. mi. (424,760 sq. km).
  • pop-up toaster — a toaster that has a mechanism that pushes slices of toast up when they are done
  • popcorn stitch — a crochet stitch made with a number of loose stitches fastened in a common base so that the yarn puffs up, looking much like a piece of popcorn
  • port nicholson — the first British settlement in New Zealand, established on Wellington Harbour in 1840: grew into Wellington
  • port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
  • porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
  • position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
  • position audit — a systematic assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of an organization as a prerequisite for future strategic planning
  • position paper — a formal, usually detailed written statement, especially regarding a single issue, that articulates a position, viewpoint, or policy, as of a government, organization, or political candidate.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
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