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14-letter words containing p, o, d, u, n

  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • production run — all of the processes necessary to manufacture a certain product etc
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • puncture wound — injury: perforation
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put down roots — settle: in a place
  • put into words — express in language
  • put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • 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.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • 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.
  • south portland — a city in SW Maine.
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
  • uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
  • uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
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