14-letter words containing p, e, n, t, y
- pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
- property owner — sb who owns a building or land
- protoplanetary — of or relating to protoplanets
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- put money into — to invest money in
- pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
- röntgenography — radiography
- rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
- sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
- spiny anteater — echidna.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
- supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
- supplementally — supplementary.
- suspensibility — capable of being suspended.