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

  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • puncture wound — injury: perforation
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put it over on — to deceive; trick
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • put on the pan — to criticize severely
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • put someone on — to connect (a person) by telephone
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • put the moz on — to jinx
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, 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.
  • return receipt — a card bearing the signature of the recipient of registered postal matter, for return to the sender as proof of receipt.
  • roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
  • siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spiritus lenis — smooth breathing.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
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