14-letter words containing t, e, l, s, p, c
- 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
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- 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.
- 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
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- 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
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- pre-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public statute — public law (def 1).
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- restricted epl — (language) (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
- self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
- semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.