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14-letter words containing d, e, s, p, o, r

  • press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
  • processed peas — peas that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • pseudoprostyle — having a colonnade at each end, either very close to the front wall or engaged in it.
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • 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.
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radiotherapist — radiologist
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • self professed — avowed; acknowledged.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • self-professed — avowed; acknowledged.
  • self-propelled — propelled by itself.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • short-tempered — having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
  • shropshire lad — a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
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