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14-letter words starting with p

  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • panidiomorphic — (of igneous rocks) having well-developed crystals
  • panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • pantomime dame — an exaggerated comedic female character in a pantomime played by a male actor
  • pantomimically — in the manner of a pantomime character or performance
  • pantopragmatic — a busybody; someone who interferes with everything
  • paper fastener — split pin
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
  • paper-shredder — a piece of machinery which shreds paper into fine strips, so as to destroy private documents, etc
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
  • papillomatosis — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
  • papillomavirus — any of several viruses of the family Papovaviridae, containing circular DNA, causing papillomas in various animals and responsible for human genital warts.
  • par excellence — being an example of excellence; superior; preeminent (used postpositively): a chef par excellence.
  • para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
  • parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • paradigmatical — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
  • paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • paragrammatist — a person who makes paragrams
  • paragraph mark — the character, used in editing and printing to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph; pilcrow.
  • parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
  • paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
  • parallel axiom — the axiom in Euclidean geometry that only one line can be drawn through a given point so that the line is parallel to a given line that does not contain the point.
  • parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
  • parallel ruler — a drawing instrument in which two parallel edges are connected so that they remain parallel, although the distance between them can be varied
  • parallelepiped — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
  • parametrically — in terms of a parameter
  • paraphernalias — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
  • pararosaniline — a colourless crystalline alcohol, a component of the red dye fuchsin, also used as a biological stain
  • parasitic male — a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish
  • parasitization — an infestation of or by parasites
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • parent message — (messaging)   What a followup follows up.
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • parental leave — a leave of absence from a job for a parent to care for a new baby.
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • parish council — local administrative body
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