14-letter words containing t, e, s, i, c, l
- phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- race relations — relationships between races
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- restricted epl — (language) (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.