14-letter words starting with p
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- patch together — assemble roughly
- patent leather — a hard, glossy, smooth leather, used especially in shoes and accessories.
- paternity suit — legal dispute over identity of father
- paternity test — an assessment of possible paternity based on a comparison of the genetic markers of the offspring and those of the putative father.
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathologically — of or relating to pathology.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- patrialisation — the process of patrialising
- patrialization — the process of patrializing
- patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
- patrick, saint — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- pauper's grave — a grave paid for at public expense because the deceased person's family could not afford one
- pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
- pax britannica — a peace imposed by Great Britain upon hostile nations, especially in the 19th century.
- pay bargaining — negotiating concerning salary or pay
- pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
- pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
- paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
- paying-in slip — a sheet in a paying-in book for writing down and keeping a record of a single deposit into an account
- payment system — a system used to pay or settle financial transactions
- paz estenssoro — Victor [beek-tawr] /ˈbik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1907–2001, Bolivian economist and statesman: president 1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89.
- 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.