14-letter words containing ant
- plantar reflex — a normal reflex flexion of the toes, especially in persons above one year of age, resulting from stroking the sole of the foot.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- pool attendant — a person who keeps watch at a swimming pool, and rescues anyone in danger of drowning
- poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
- praying mantis — mantis.
- pre-anticipate — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
- psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
- quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantitatively — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quantum meruit — as much as he has earned: denoting a payment for goods or services in partial fulfilment of a contract or for those supplied when no price has been agreed
- quantum number — any integer or half of an odd integer that distinguishes one of the discrete states of a quantum-mechanical system.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quantum system — a theoretical or actual system based on quantum physics, as a supercomputer.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quasi-constant — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
- radiant heater — a heater that heats a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc
- radioresistant — resistant to the effects of radiation
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- restaurant car — dining car.
- restauranteurs — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
- resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- santa catalina — an island off the SW coast of California, opposite Long Beach: resort. 132 sq. mi. (342 sq. km).
- santa catarina — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- scaly anteater — pangolin.
- scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
- search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- semi-malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- shop assistant — a store clerk.
- silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
- sitting tenant — A sitting tenant is a person who rents a house or flat as their home and has a legal right to live there.