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  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
  • pump prices — petrol prices
  • pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
  • pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
  • screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
  • semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
  • sempervivum — any of various succulent plants belonging to the genus Sempervivum, of the stonecrop family, having leaves in dense basal rosettes and a compact, flat-topped cluster of flowers, and including the houseleek, S. tectorum, and other commonly cultivated species.
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
  • stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
  • sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
  • summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
  • superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
  • supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
  • supermodern — highly modern
  • supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
  • superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
  • superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
  • supportment — the action of supporting
  • supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
  • suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
  • temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • trispermous — having three seeds.
  • trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
  • underdamper — a piano damper that is found below the hammers
  • unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
  • unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • unimpressed — finding sth unremarkable
  • unperformed — not performed or done
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