14-letter words containing n, o, c, m, p
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- 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.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- 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.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- ship's company — company (def 11).
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
- tropical month — the period of time taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
- 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
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world