14-letter words containing n, t, u, p
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- 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.
- quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- 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
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- 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.
- return receipt — a card bearing the signature of the recipient of registered postal matter, for return to the sender as proof of receipt.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- 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.
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
- snap out of it — return quickly to normal
- something's up — something is amiss
- south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- south thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- spiritus lenis — smooth breathing.
- 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.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- subspontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2