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14-letter words containing e, m, p, n

  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • 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.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • semi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • set an example — If you set an example, you encourage or inspire people by your behaviour to behave or act in a similar way.
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
  • simple protein — a protein that yields only amino acids and no other major products when hydrolyzed (contrasted with conjugated protein).
  • simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
  • simpson's rule — a method for approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating, with parabolic arcs, the area under the curve defined by the integrand.
  • single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
  • sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
  • spanish omelet — an omelet served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
  • specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
  • spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
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