14-letter words containing o, n, e, u
- premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
- pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
- 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.
- pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- 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-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).
- puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pull-down menu — (operating system) (Or "drop-down menu", "pop-down menu") A menu in a graphical user interface, whose title is normally visible but whose contents are revealed only when the user activates it, normally by pressing the mouse button while the pointer is over the title, whereupon the menu items appear below the title. The user may then select an item from the menu or click elsewhere, in either case the menu contents are hidden again. A menu item is selected either by dragging the mouse from the menu title to the item and releasing or by clicking the title and then the item. When a pull-down menu appears in the main area of a window, as opposed to the menu bar, it may have a small, downward-pointing triangle to the right. Compare: scrollable list.
- 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 money into — to invest money in
- put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- put on the pan — to criticize severely
- 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
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- put the moz on — to jinx
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quarter nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from a kneeling position beside an opponent, puts one hand on the opponent's head, passes the free arm under the far arm of the opponent, and locks the free arm to the other arm by clasping the wrist.