14-letter words containing pl
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- carrying place — portage (def 3).
- charge-a-plate — charge plate.
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chenille plant — an East Indian plant, Acalypha hispida, of the spurge family, having long, drooping, reddish-purple spikes of flowers.
- chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
- cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
- closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
- coeliac plexus — the network of sympathetic nerves situated behind the stomach that supply the abdominal organs
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- complexionless — (of a person's face) pale
- complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
- congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
- constantinople — Istanbul
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- country people — people who live in the country
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- cyanoplatinite — platinocyanide.
- deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
- dental implant — artificial tooth fixed into the jaw
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- dictionary apl — Sharp APL
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- diplomatically — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.
- disciplinaries — Plural form of disciplinary.
- disciplinarily — In a disciplinary way.
- disciplinarity — The quality of being an academic discipline.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disk duplexing — (hardware, storage) A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- displeasedness — the state of being displeased
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
- duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts