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

  • pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
  • 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
  • punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
  • 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 the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
  • quota sampling — a method of conducting market research in which the sample is selected according to a quota-system based on such factors as age, sex, social class, etc
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • 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
  • roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
  • snap out of it — return quickly to normal
  • south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • south portland — a city in SW Maine.
  • spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
  • spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
  • spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
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