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14-letter words containing p, u, e, t, r

  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exposure meter — photography: light meter
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • in the picture — informed about a given situation
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
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