14-letter words containing p, u, d, e, n
- pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- 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.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- 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 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.
- pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- put the lid on — to be the final blow to
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- 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.
- sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- 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
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
- un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.