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

  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant.
  • purposefulness — having a purpose.
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
  • pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
  • 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.
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • 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.
  • raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
  • reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • representation — the act of representing.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
  • reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • russian empire — Russia (def 1).
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • schizo-phrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
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