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14-letter words containing t, i, u, p, y

  • phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • 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.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
  • port authority — a government commission that manages bridges, tunnels, airports, and other such facilities of a port or city.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • priority queue — (programming)   A data structure with three operations: insert a new item, return the highest priority item, and remove the highest priority item. The obvious way to represent priority queues is by maintaining a sorted list but this can make the insert operation very slow. Greater efficiency can be achieved by using heaps.
  • private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
  • proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
  • psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public utility — a business enterprise, as a public-service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Compare utility (def 3).
  • pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
  • superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
  • supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
  • supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • surprise party — a party or celebration planned for someone as a surprise.
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
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