14-letter words containing c, y, p, r, e
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protocol layer — (networking) The software and/or hardware environment of two or more communications devices or computers in which a particular network protocol operates. A network connection may be thought of as a set of more or less independent protocols, each in a different layer or level. The lowest layer governs direct host-to-host communication between the hardware at different hosts; the highest consists of user application programs. Each layer uses the layer beneath it and provides a service for the layer above. Each networking component hardware or software on one host uses protocols appropriate to its layer to communicate with the corresponding component (its "peer") on another host. Such layered protocols are sometimes known as peer-to-peer protocols. The advantages of layered protocols is that the methods of passing information from one layer to another are specified clearly as part of the protocol suite, and changes within a protocol layer are prevented from affecting the other layers. This greatly simplifies the task of designing and maintaining communication systems. Examples of layered protocols are TCP/IP's five layer protocol stack and the OSI seven layer model.
- psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
- recycled paper — paper made from recycled materials, esp waste paper
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- sclerophyllous — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
- sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
- summer cypress — burning bush (def 2).
- superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
- supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
- sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
- symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
- synchronoscope — synchroscope.