14-letter words containing o, u, t, p, i
- 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
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
- psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
- pull-down list — (operating system) (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- push down list — (programming) (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
- put into words — express in language
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- put money into — to invest money in
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
- 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.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- 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
- 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.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- 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.
- 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
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- 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
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- 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.
- split-pea soup — soup made from split peas
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
- st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- strepsipterous — belonging or pertaining to the order Strepsiptera, comprising minute insects that are closely related to the beetles, the twisted-winged male being free-living and the wingless female parasitic in various insect hosts.