14-letter words containing y, o, i
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
- primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
- primary mirror — the mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light in a reflecting telescope
- primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
- priority queue — (programming) A data structure with three operations: insert a new item, return the highest priority item, and remove the highest priority item. The obvious way to represent priority queues is by maintaining a sorted list but this can make the insert operation very slow. Greater efficiency can be achieved by using heaps.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- productibility — the ability to produce
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- progressionary — relating to progression
- property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- proportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protoporphyrin — a type of porphyrin that, when combined with an iron atom, forms haem, the oxygen-bearing prosthetic group of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
- prototypically — in a prototypical manner
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
- proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
- psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
- psycho-history — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
- psycho-somatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
- psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- psychophysical — the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
- psychosocially — from a psychosocial point of view
- psychosomatics — the study of psychosomatic conditions
- psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- public holiday — national day off work