14-letter words containing r, e, p, u, g, n
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- 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
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
- 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)
- sugar snap pea — snap pea.
- 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
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
- 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
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced