14-letter words containing s, y, n, a, p, e
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
- para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- paternity suit — legal dispute over identity of father
- paternity test — an assessment of possible paternity based on a comparison of the genetic markers of the offspring and those of the putative father.
- pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- payment system — a system used to pay or settle financial transactions
- penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
- penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- percutaneously — through the skin
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pheasant's eye — an annual ranunculaceous plant, Adonis annua (or autumnalis), with scarlet flowers and finely divided leaves: native to S Europe but naturalized elsewhere
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- polyunsaturate — a polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid.
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- prayerlessness — the quality of being prayerless; the state of not praying
- predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- presentability — that may be presented.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- progressionary — relating to progression
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
- 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.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- spiny anteater — echidna.
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- supplementally — supplementary.
- symmetry plane — reflection plane.