22-letter words containing pa
- packet internet groper — ping
- paddle one's own canoe — any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- padparadschah sapphire — a rare, yellowish-orange sapphire found in Sri Lanka.
- pale horse, pale rider — a trilogy of short novels (1939) by Katherine Anne Porter.
- para-aminobenzoic acid — part of the folic acid molecule, a white or yellowish, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 7 NO 2 , the para isomer of aminobenzoic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals and in sunscreens to protect against ultraviolet light. Abbreviation: PABA.
- paracoccidioidomycosis — a chronic infection caused by the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, occurring in Mexico and in Central and South America, characterized by mouth and throat ulcers, weight loss, and lesions on the skin, intestines, and genitals.
- parallel server option — Oracle Parallel Server
- paranoid schizophrenia — severe psychiatric disorder
- parker morris standard — (in Britain) a set of minimum criteria for good housing construction, design, and facilities, recommended by the 1961 report of the Central Housing Advisory Committee chaired by Sir Parker Morris. Subsequent governments have urged private and local authority house-builders to achieve these standards
- parliamentary election — an election to select the members of a national parliament
- paroxysmal tachycardia — tachycardia that begins and subsides suddenly.
- partial-birth abortion — (term used chiefly by opponents of abortion) D & C.
- particular affirmative — a proposition of the form “Some S is P.” Symbol: I.
- partnerships for peace — a subsidiary organization of NATO, comprising former Warsaw Pact countries that wish to be allied with NATO but have not been granted full NATO membership: established in 1994
- passive matrix display — (hardware) A type of liquid crystal display which relies on persistence to maintain the state of each display element (pixel) between refresh scans. The resolution of such displays is limited by the ratio between the time to set a pixel and the time it takes to fade. Contrast active matrix display.
- pavlovian conditioning — conditioning (def 2).
- pay dearly/cost dearly — If you pay dearly for doing something or if it costs you dearly, you suffer a lot as a result.
- post office department — former name of United States Postal Service.
- principal ideal domain — a commutative integral domain with multiplicative identity in which every ideal is principal.
- private-equity company — an organization that uses private equity to gain control of and manage companies
- procurement department — the department of (a company, organization, etc) responsible for purchasing and buying
- progressive participle — present participle.
- public limited company — A public limited company is the same as a public company. The abbreviation plc is used after such companies' names.
- put sth out to pasture — If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass.
- school crossing patrol — the official name for lollipop man or lady
- scissors-and-paste job — if you describe a piece of work as a scissors and paste job, you mean that it has been mechanically compiled, as if by simply cutting and pasting different parts to make a new whole
- semipalmated sandpiper — a common North American sandpiper, Calidris pusillus, having semipalmate feet.
- side-impact protection — a device that is intended to protect a car and its passengers in the event of a collision at the side
- specific heat capacity — the heat required to raise unit mass of a substance by unit temperature interval under specified conditions, such as constant pressure: usually measured in joules per kelvin per kilogram
- sympathetic ophthalmia — inflammation of one eye due to injury or disease of the other eye.
- there is no comparison — If you say there is no comparison between one thing and another, you mean that you think the first thing is much better than the second, or very different from it.
- thus spake zarathustra — German Also sprach Zarathustra. a philosophical work in poetic form (1883) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
- to make the front page — if something 'makes the front page' it is printed on the first page of a newspaper
- welsh springer spaniel — one of a Welsh breed of springer spaniels having a red and white coat.
- white-throated sparrow — a common North American finch, Zonotrichia albicollis, having a white patch on the throat and a black and white striped crown.
- yosemite national park — a national park in E California. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).