14-letter words containing u, n, p, r, i, m
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, 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.
- rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- russian empire — Russia (def 1).
- simpson's rule — a method for approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating, with parabolic arcs, the area under the curve defined by the integrand.
- single premium — a single payment that covers the entire cost of an insurance policy.
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- superimportant — extremely important
- superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
- supermasculine — highly masculine
- 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.
- uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
- uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.