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14-letter words containing e, g, o, i, t

  • prepositioning — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • printing error — a misprint or misspelling in a text
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
  • progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
  • progressionist — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
  • progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
  • random testing — (programming, testing)   A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • redintegration — the act or process of redintegrating.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • remote sensing — the science of gathering data on an object or area from a considerable distance, as with radar or infrared photography, to observe the earth or a heavenly body.
  • reorganization — the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • reregistration — the act of registering.
  • resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
  • retrocognition — the paranormal ability or occurrence of seeing into the past
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • retrogradation — backward movement.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • rolling stones — the. British rock group (formed 1962): comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (born 1943; guitar, vocals), Brian Jones (1942–69; guitar), Charlie Watts (born 1941; drums), Bill Wyman (born 1936; bass guitar; now retired), and subsequently Mick Taylor (born 1948; guitar; with the group 1969–74) and Ron Wood (born 1947; guitar; with the group from 1975)
  • rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
  • route flapping — flapping router
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