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

  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • shopping hours — the times during which shops are open
  • sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • siege perilous — a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
  • single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • spring equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • st. 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).
  • string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • sugar snap pea — snap pea.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sulfuryl group — the bivalent group, SO 2 , derived from sulfuric acid.
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • 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
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • the open group — (body)   (Formerly "X/Open") A vendor- and technology-neutral consortium of buyers and suppliers of information systems that aims to ease integration by testing and certifying products against open standards.
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
  • unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
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