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14-letter words containing s, e, m, p, r

  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • precompression — the act of compressing.
  • predeterminism — the belief that everything is predetermined
  • preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • prescriptivism — a writer, teacher, or supporter of prescriptive grammar.
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primary stress — primary accent.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • process camera — a large camera used in the photographic processes involved in the printing industry
  • processor farm — (computer, parallel)   A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
  • processor time — (software)   The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
  • progressionism — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
  • 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.
  • pygmy marmoset — a related form, Cebuella pygmaea: the smallest monkey, inhabiting tropical forests of the Amazon
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • 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.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
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