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14-letter words containing p, u, r, s, a, n

  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
  • south portland — a city in SW Maine.
  • spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • sugar snap pea — snap pea.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
  • superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
  • superannuation — the act of superannuating.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superterranean — situated, or living, on the earth's surface
  • supra-national — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • supralapsarian — the doctrine that the decree of election preceded human creation and the Fall (opposed to infralapsarianism).
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • torque spanner — a spanner having a torque-limiting mechanism which can be set to a predetermined value
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
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