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14-letter words containing o, n, e, u, p, s

  • presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • 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.
  • pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • 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 one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • put someone on — to connect (a person) by telephone
  • 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 space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • 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).
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • 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.
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • 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.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
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