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

  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • photoduplicate — photocopy.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • 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.
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • 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.
  • picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • picture puzzle — jigsaw puzzle (def 1).
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
  • pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • planetological — involving or relating to planetology
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
  • 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.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • 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
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • 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
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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