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14-letter words containing p, u, d, g

  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • modular prolog — An interpreter for SB-Prolog version 3.1 extended with ML-style modules. Runs on SPARC. Distributed under GNU General Public License.
  • old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • painted tongue — a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
  • proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • 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.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
  • put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • radioautograph — autoradiograph.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • 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
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unpretendingly — without pretence
  • up and running — active, in operation
  • up to high doh — extremely excited or keyed up
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
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