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14-letter words containing pen

  • open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
  • open to offers — If you are open to offers, you are willing to do something if someone will pay you an amount of money that you think is reasonable.
  • open-reel tape — audiotape, usually 1/4 inch (64 mm) wide, wound on a single reel and requiring a separate take-up reel for playing or recording.
  • openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • openmindedness — Alternative form of open-mindedness.
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • other expenses — Other expenses are expenses that do not relate to a company's main business.
  • 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.
  • penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • penalty double — business double.
  • penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • penny-pinching — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentamethylene — cyclopentane.
  • pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • pentyl acetate — a colourless combustible liquid used as a solvent for paints, in the extraction of penicillin, in photographic film, and as a flavouring. Formula: CH3COOC5H11
  • petty expenses — small expenses incurred in the course of your work or studies
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
  • propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • self-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • semi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • serpent bearer — the constellation Ophiuchus.
  • serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spending spree — a brief period of extravagant spending
  • styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
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