14-letter words containing pe
- european union — political union of European countries
- exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
- expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
- experienceless — without experience; inexperienced
- experientially — In terms of experience.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
- eye specialist — ophthalmologist
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
- ferry operator — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
- fiery-tempered — easily angered
- fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- gentoo penguin — a penguin, Pygoscelis papua, of small Antarctic islands.
- german speaker — a person who speaks German
- giuseppe peano — (person, mathematics, logic) (1858-08-27 - 1932-04-20) An Italian mathematician who wrote over 200 books and papers, was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory and taught at the University of Turin. He contributed to mathematical analysis, logic, the teaching of calculus, differential equations, vector analysis and the axiomatization of mathematics. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named Peano arithmetic or the Peano axioms after him. He also invented the Peano curve, an early example of a fractal.
- glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
- guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
- gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
- hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- happenstantial — Being or relating to happenstance.
- harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
- hemlock looper — the larva of a geometrid moth, Lambdina fiscellaria, common in some areas of North America and a serious pest of various trees, as hemlock, Douglas fir, balsam spruce, and oak.
- herpes simplex — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- house of peers — former name of the Japanese House of Councilors.
- humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
- hydroperoxides — Plural form of hydroperoxide.
- hyper-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.