14-letter words containing p, u, r, s
- cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer virus — virus
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- corpus christi — a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
- corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
- corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterpersons — Plural form of counterperson.
- counterpoising — Present participle of counterpoise.
- counterprotest — a protest which opposes an existing protest
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- creeping jesus — an obsequious or servile person
- crêpes suzette — crêpes rolled or folded in a hot, orange-flavored sauce and usually served in flaming brandy
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cryptoporticus — a covered passage, as one underground, lighted on one side.
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- cuprotungstite — (mineral) A tetragonal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tungsten.
- curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cypress spurge — a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
- depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else