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

  • group of seven — G7.
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • nassau grouper — a colorful food and game fish, Epinephelus striatus, common off the Florida Keys.
  • neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
  • neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
  • neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
  • pauper's grave — a grave paid for at public expense because the deceased person's family could not afford one
  • peanut allergy — a condition of being hypersensitive to peanuts and peanut substances which can lead to severe physical symptoms if peanuts or peanut substances are consumed
  • peanut gallery — Informal. the rearmost and cheapest section of seats in the balcony or the uppermost balcony of a theater.
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
  • pressure gauge — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a gas or liquid.
  • pressure group — an interest group that attempts to influence legislation through the use of lobbying techniques and propaganda.
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
  • 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.
  • pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
  • 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
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