14-letter words that end in p
- postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
- prairie turnip — breadroot.
- pressure group — an interest group that attempts to influence legislation through the use of lobbying techniques and propaganda.
- prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- propenyl group — a univalent group derived from propylene, CH 3 CH=CH−.
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- 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.
- quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- serial line ip — (SLIP) Serial Line Internet Protocol.
- shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
- sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
- something's up — something is amiss
- spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
- 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.
- split-pea soup — soup made from split peas
- stepstone corp — (company) A company founded by Brad Cox, responsible for Objective C. Telephone: +1 (203) 426-1875.
- subscribership — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
- sulfuryl group — the bivalent group, SO 2 , derived from sulfuric acid.
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- 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 gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
- 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 open group — (body) (Formerly "X/Open") A vendor- and technology-neutral consortium of buyers and suppliers of information systems that aims to ease integration by testing and certifying products against open standards.
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- vincennes lisp — (language) (VLISP) A dialect of Lisp resulting from development, starting in 1971, of Lisp interpreters and compilers at the University of Paris VIII - Vincennes. VLISP interpreters and compilers were designed to run on small computers.
- writer's cramp — spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.