14-letter words containing e, n, t, o, p, r
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
- re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- representation — the act of representing.
- repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, 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.
- ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme