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14-letter words containing p, s, e

  • instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
  • intempestively — in an intempestive manner
  • intempestivity — the state or quality of being intempestive
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • interiorscaper — One who works in interiorscaping.
  • interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
  • interpretivism — Antipositivism.
  • interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • introspections — Plural form of introspection.
  • intussuscepted — Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
  • irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
  • irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
  • irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • issue a policy — If an insurer issues a policy, they create an insurance policy and provide it to a customer.
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
  • james stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
  • japanese cedar — Japan cedar.
  • japanese holly — an evergreen shrub, Ilex crenata, of Japan, having black fruit and box-shaped foliage, widely grown as an ornamental.
  • japanese larch — a tree, Larix kaempferi, of Japan, having bluish-green leaves and egg-shaped cones.
  • japanese maple — a small, graceful maple tree, Acer palmatum, of Korea and Japan, having small, purple flowers, the foliage turning bright red in autumn.
  • japanese paper — paper of a high rag content, used for woodcuts, engravings, etc.
  • japanese quail — any of several small Old World quails of the genus Coturnix, especially C. japonica (Japanese quail) widely used as a laboratory animal.
  • jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • keep sb posted — update regularly
  • keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • keynote speech — opening address at a conference
  • kindred spirit — likeminded person
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
  • kiss principle — /kis' prin'si-pl/ Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control complexity of development. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep It Short and Simple". See also Occam's Razor.
  • kit inspection — inspection of soldiers' kit by a superior officer, to make sure it is all clean, working, and in a good state
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
  • kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
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