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14-letter words containing s, p, u, n

  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precociousness — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
  • pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • pseudosentence — a sentence rejected as meaningless because it does not express anything verifiable in experience.
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pull-down list — (operating system)   (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
  • pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
  • punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
  • 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
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put down roots — settle: in a place
  • put into words — express in language
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • put someone on — to connect (a person) by telephone
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • queen's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • quintus prolog — (language, product)   A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
  • quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
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