14-letter words containing r, e, t, o, u
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pseudoprostyle — having a colonnade at each end, either very close to the front wall or engaged in it.
- pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quarter dollar — quarter (def 3).
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- quarter nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from a kneeling position beside an opponent, puts one hand on the opponent's head, passes the free arm under the far arm of the opponent, and locks the free arm to the other arm by clasping the wrist.
- quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.