14-letter words containing e, i, n, s, t, u
- paternity suit — legal dispute over identity of father
- persian walnut — English walnut.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- pneumonologist — an expert or specialist in the respiratory system
- pontius pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- pontus euxinus — a sea between Europe and Asia, bordered by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Russian Federation. 164,000 sq. mi. (424,760 sq. km).
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
- pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
- pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
- pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quasi-infinite — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
- quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- quasiessential — Almost essential.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
- quiescent tank — a tank, usually for sewage sludge, in which the sludge is allowed to remain for a time so that sedimentation can occur
- quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
- quintessential — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
- requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.