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14-letter words containing p, o, n, y, t, a

  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
  • porphyrization — reduction to a powder, formerly done on a slab of porphyry.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • potty training — teaching an infant to use the toilet
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
  • proportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • protoplanetary — of or relating to protoplanets
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • 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.
  • rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • 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.
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
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