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14-letter words containing e, m, p, u, r

  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • 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.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
  • purple emperor — any of several Old World nymphalid butterflies of the genus Apatura, esp A. iris, having mottled purple-and-brown wings
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • quick-tempered — easily angered.
  • quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • 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.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • semper paratus — always prepared
  • simple measure — rhythm characterized by two or three beats or pulses to a measure.
  • 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.
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • summer cypress — burning bush (def 2).
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superimportant — extremely important
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