14-letter words containing n, o, u, p, r, e
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
- 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
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- 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.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- 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
- 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.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
- 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.
- siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project