14-letter words containing g, r, i, p
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
- 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.
- quintus prolog — (language, product) A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- radiographical — the production of radiographs.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
- record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- 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.
- rhyparographic — of or relating to rhyparography
- riparian right — a right, as fishing or use of water for irrigation or power, enjoyed by a person who owns riparian property.
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- route flapping — flapping router
- routing policy — (networking) Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
- screen popping — (communications) The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
- sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
- sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
- shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
- shopping spree — frenzied, indulgent buying
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- siege perilous — a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.