14-letter words containing y, p

presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
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 letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
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.
primary stress — primary accent.
primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
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.
private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
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
propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
property owner — sb who owns a building or land
property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
proportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
propyl alcohol — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 8 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
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.
protocol layer — (networking) The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
protoplanetary — of or relating to protoplanets
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
protopresbyter — a title given to distinguished priests.
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
pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
pseudoprostyle — having a colonnade at each end, either very close to the front wall or engaged in it.
pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.

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