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14-letter words containing s, u, p, o, e, d

  • pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
  • producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
  • 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.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • pseudo-classic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
  • 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-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • 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.
  • pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
  • quasi-periodic — almost periodic
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
  • sock suspender — garter (def 1).
  • sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
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