14-letter words containing t, a, p, i, r
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
- philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
- pinnatipartite — (of leaves) pinnately divided into lobes reaching just over halfway to the midrib
- pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
- pitjantjatjara — an Aboriginal people of the desert area of South Australia
- pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
- plantain-eater — any of various touracos, erroneously believed to feed chiefly on plantains and bananas.
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- 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
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
- pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- 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
- pointe-a-pitre — a seaport on central Guadeloupe, in the E West Indies.
- 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
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- popularization — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- porphyrization — reduction to a powder, formerly done on a slab of porphyry.
- port authority — a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.
- port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
- port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- 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.