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14-letter words containing a, u, s, p

  • pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
  • punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
  • scalar product — inner product (def 1).
  • scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • semper paratus — always prepared
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
  • sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
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