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14-letter words containing t, a, i, e, p, l

  • 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 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
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum metal — any of the group of precious metallic elements consisting of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plenipotential — relating to a plenipotentiary
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • pneumatic pile — a hollow pile, used under water, in which a vacuum is induced so that air and water pressure force it into place.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • polar equation — an equation in which the variables are polar coordinates.
  • polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • 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.
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • 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
  • 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
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • pre-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • preoperational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
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