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14-letter words containing p, e, s, t

  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • supersensitize — to render or make supersensitive.
  • supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
  • superspectacle — an extravagant cinematic spectacle, esp the silent Italian films of the early 1900s
  • superstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • superstructure — the part of a building or construction entirely above its foundation or basement.
  • supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
  • superterranean — situated, or living, on the earth's surface
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • support system — people who provide support: a family support system to help a troubled youth.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • surprise party — a party or celebration planned for someone as a surprise.
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • susceptible to — liable to
  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet-tempered — having a gentle and equable disposition; pleasant.
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tape transport — transport (def 12).
  • telephoto lens — a lens constructed so as to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than that required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • telescope peak — a mountain in SE California: highest peak in the Panamint Range, above Death Valley. 11,049 feet (3368 meters).
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • teletypesetter — a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly
  • tempest-tossed — buffeted about, as by adversities.
  • test separator — A test separator is a vessel which is used to separate and measure small amounts of oil and gas.
  • text to speech — (application)   (TTS) Automatic conversion of text streams to voice.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the opposition — a political party or group opposed to the ruling party or government
  • the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
  • the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
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