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14-letter words containing m, o, n, p, r, t

  • pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • pro-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • programme note — A programme note is an article written in a programme for a play or concert, which gives information about the performance or production.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proportionment — the act of proportioning.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • 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
  • 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
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • 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.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • 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)
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.
  • terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
  • tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
  • tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
  • two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
  • ultracompetent — extremely competent
  • uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unpresumptuous — not presumptuous; modest
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