14-letter words containing y, t, r, i
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
- petrophysicist — a person who studies, or is an expert in, petrophysics
- petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
- photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
- 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.
- pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
- plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
- polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- porphyrization — reduction to a powder, formerly done on a slab of porphyry.
- porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
- port authority — a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.
- potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- prairie oyster — a raw egg, or the yolk of a raw egg, often mixed with seasonings, as salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and used as a hangover remedy.
- prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
- praying mantis — mantis.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- premeditatedly — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- 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 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 stress — primary accent.
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- 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.