14-letter words containing s, u, p, i, c, o
- precious coral — red coral.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- 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.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- 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.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-classic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- pseudo-science — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- 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-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superior court — the court of general jurisdiction found in many states of the United States.
- superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
- superscription — the act of superscribing.
- superstruction — the action of superstructing
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing