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14-letter words containing u, m, p, t, e

  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • semper paratus — always prepared
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • speculum metal — any of several bronze alloys with a high tin content, often containing other materials, as silver, brass, lead, zinc, or arsenic, used for making mirrors and reflectors.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • superstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • support system — people who provide support: a family support system to help a troubled youth.
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • temper tantrum — tantrum.
  • temperamentful — full of temperament
  • temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
  • trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
  • trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
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