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14-letter words containing i, m, p, o, r

  • proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • 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.
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, 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.
  • rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • sharptail mola — a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
  • 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.
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • spatiotemporal — pertaining to space-time.
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
  • spirit compass — a wet compass filled with a mixture of alcohol and water.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
  • theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
  • thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
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