0%

14-letter words containing r, a, p, i, s

  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
  • psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
  • pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
  • purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
  • purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radiotherapist — radiologist
  • rail transport — the system of taking passengers or goods from one place to another by railway
  • reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • representation — the act of representing.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?