14-Letter Words Containing O

Phenotypical

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

See phenylthiocarbamide .

Philanthropy

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

Philological

PHILOSOPHISE

Philosophizer

""PHILOSOPHIZE To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.""

Phlebography

Phonological

Phosphokinase

Phospholipase

""Any of a group of proteins, such as casein, containing chemically bound phosphoric acid.""

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

PHOSPHORESCE To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ic)

Phosphorylase

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phosphorylate

An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source. Green plants and photosynthetic bacteria are photoautotrophs.

Photobiology

Person associated with (-ist)

""The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.""

Photochromism

Photocomposer

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Photodetector

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoelectron

Photoemission

Photoengraver

""The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.""

Photofinisher

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

PHOTOGENIC Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

Photogeology

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

""A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.""

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOLYTIC

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PHOTOPERIOD

Photoreaction

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Photoreceptor

Photoreducte

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

Photosynthate

Plural or third person singular

Process by which plants trap light energy

Pictures, strangely shiny, set in process that gives everything more life

The posy this son arranged, showing what plants can do

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Phraseologist

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

Phycoerythrin

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

Botany ()

Picornavirus

PICTORIALIZE

Picturization

Pidginization

Pinealectomy

PINEALECTOMIZE

An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and humans. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

Astronomy ()

Planetologist

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Plastoquinone

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

In a pleonastic manner.

Plethysmogram

""An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.""

Plotlessness

Pluralization

Pneumatology

Pneumatophore

""A disease of the lungs, such as asbestosis or silicosis, caused by long-continued inhalation of especially mineral or metallic dust.""

Disease caused by habitually inhaling coal-dust

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Pococurantism

Podsolization

Podzolization

Poeticalness

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Polarography

POLITICALIZE

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

ACRYLAMIDE

Polybutadiene

Polycarbonate

POLYDISPERSE

Polyembryony

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

Polymorphous

Plural or third person singular

Polyneuritis

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Inflected form of PHONICALLY Inflected form of PHONIC pertaining to the nature of sound

Polypropylene

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

Polytonality

Pontification

""The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.""

Populousness

PORCELAINIZE

Portentous

Positiveness

Possession

Possessive

English word

Noun (-tion)

Person associated with (-ist)

POSTCOLLEGE

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Plural or third person singular

Noun (-sion)

Posteriority

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-ence)

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

""POSTGRADUATE Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.""

Posthumous

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Noun (-tion)

English word

The office of postmaster.

Of or occurring in the time following menopause.

Happening or existing after the millennium.

Postmistress

Postmodernism

Postmodernist

Of or pertaining to postposition.

Postpositive

Work done on film after recording has finished

Plural noun or verb form

Dead

COMMUNITY

Posttension

Potentiality

Potentiometer

An instrument for measuring an unknown voltage by comparison to a standard voltage.

In a praiseworthy manner.

Preadaptation

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

Preadolescent

Precarious

Precentorship

Preceptorship

Preciousness

Precipitation

PRECIPITIN

Cherished quality about one child, initially, showing early development

Precombustion

Uninformed ideas about procreation

Precondition

Preconscious

Preconscious

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

Preconstruct

Plural noun (-tions)

Preconviction

Predaceous

Fixed fate

Doctrine that God has ordained future events

Perdition's neat solution for those so chosen (wordplay)

Predestinator

DEVALUATION

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

Prediscovery

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

Predominancy

Predomination

Plural noun (-ments)

Plural noun (-ments)

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

Prefiguration

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Premeditation

Prenomination