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14-letter words starting with pe

  • 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.
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • 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
  • people carrier — large saloon car
  • people's court — small-claims court.
  • people's front — popular front.
  • people's panel — a group of people composed of members of the public, brought together to discuss, investigate, or decide on a particular matter

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