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14-letter words containing i, n, y

  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • public inquiry — an official enquiry, usually into a serious accident or other disaster, or into planning applications. Interested parties can attend, and contribute.
  • 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
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • 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.
  • pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pyroninophilic — (of cells) having their cytoplasm stained red by methyl green pyronin, indicating the presence of much RNA and active protein synthesis
  • 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.
  • quantitatively — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quinquennially — Every five years.
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • racing cyclist — a cyclist who takes part in bicycle races
  • radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
  • 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.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
  • rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
  • referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • rental library — lending library.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
  • rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
  • 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.
  • royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
  • 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.
  • ryukyu islands — a chain of 55 islands in the W Pacific, extending almost 650 km (400 miles) from S Japan to N Taiwan: an ancient kingdom, under Chinese rule from the late 14th century, invaded by Japan in the early 17th century, under full Japanese sovereignty from 1879 to 1945, and US control from 1945 to 1972; now part of Japan again. They are subject to frequent typhoons. Chief town: Naha (on Okinawa). Pop: 1 318 220 (2000). Area: 2196 sq km (849 sq miles)
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
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