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14-letter words containing d, r, u, p

  • picture editor — someone whose job is to deal with the photographs and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine
  • picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
  • picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • pre-calculated — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
  • pre-delinquent — (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • 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.
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • production run — all of the processes necessary to manufacture a certain product etc
  • 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.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • puncture wound — injury: perforation
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
  • put down roots — settle: in a place
  • put into words — express in language
  • quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
  • quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
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