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14-letter words that end in ce

  • play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
  • poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
  • poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
  • policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
  • port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • pre-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • pre-conference — a meeting for consultation or discussion: a conference between a student and his adviser.
  • pre-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
  • rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
  • road allowance — land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
  • second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
  • secret service — the branch of governmental service that conducts secret investigations, especially investigations into the military strength of other nations.
  • self-assurance — self-confidence.
  • self-clearance — the act of clearing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
  • self-reference — reference made to oneself, to one's own character or experience, or to a group with which one identifies.
  • self-reverence — a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
  • self-sacrifice — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
  • senior service — the Royal Navy
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