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14-letter words containing pe

  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operating room — a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR.
  • operation code — (programming)   (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
  • operationalise — Alternative spelling of operationalize.
  • operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
  • operationalize — Put into operation or use.
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • other expenses — Other expenses are expenses that do not relate to a company's main business.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over-expectant — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
  • over-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overdependence — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • owner-operator — a driver, especially of a truck or taxicab, who owns and operates a vehicle used to earn a living.
  • paint stripper — Paint stripper is a liquid which you use in order to remove old paint from things such as doors or pieces of furniture.
  • palaeopedology — the study of ancient soils
  • paper fastener — split pin
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
  • paper-shredder — a piece of machinery which shreds paper into fine strips, so as to destroy private documents, etc
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • parallelepiped — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • pauper's grave — a grave paid for at public expense because the deceased person's family could not afford one
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peace activist — someone who advocates for peace or an end to conflicts
  • peace campaign — a campaign for peace or an end to conflict
  • peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
  • peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • peacock's tail — a handsome brown seaweed, Padina pavonia (though coloured yellow-olive, red, and green) whose fan-shaped fronds have concentric bands of iridescent hairs
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • peano's axioms — a collection of axioms concerning the properties of the set of all positive integers, including the principle of mathematical induction.
  • peanut allergy — a condition of being hypersensitive to peanuts and peanut substances which can lead to severe physical symptoms if peanuts or peanut substances are consumed
  • peanut gallery — Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
  • pebble glasses — spectacles with round thick lenses with a high degree of magnification
  • pebble-leather — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pectinesterase — an enzyme present in plants, and some bacteria and fungi, which hydrolyses pectin
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestal table — a table supported upon a central shaft, or upon several shafts along its centerline, each resting upon a spreading foot or feet.
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