16-letter words containing p, r, u, s
- put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
- put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
- put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
- put to the sword — to kill with a sword or swords
- quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
- reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
- report structure — A report structure is a structure containing a reporting clause and a reported clause or a quote.
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- run-time support — run-time system
- saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- saturation point — the point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution, chemical combination, etc.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
- seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
- share repurchase — A share repurchase is a situation in which a company buys back its own shares.
- shepherd's-purse — a European weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, having white flowers and purselike pods, naturalized in North America.
- shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- specific surface — The specific surface is the ratio of a particle's surface area to its volume or mass.
- specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
- spiritual healer — a faith healer
- spiritual incest — marriage or a sexual relationship between persons related by spiritual affinity or with a person under a solemn vow of chastity
- spiritualization — to make spiritual.
- spiritus vinosus — (in prescriptions) spirits of wine; alcohol.
- splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- sports equipment — gear used to play sport
- spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
- sql access group — (body) The origanisaton which defined Call-Level Interface, on which ODBC is based. It is now part of X/Open.
- stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
- start-up capital — capital used to set up a new business
- start-up company — new business
- striped squirrel — any squirrel with stripes on its back, as a chipmunk.
- studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
- sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
- subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).