14-letter words containing d, r, u
- 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
- quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
- quadrangularly — in a quadrangular manner
- quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- quadrilaterals — Plural form of quadrilateral.
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- 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.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quarter dollar — quarter (def 3).
- quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioacoustics — the science and technology of the production, transmission, and reproduction of sounds carried by radio waves.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.