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14-letter words containing s, p, i, n, y

  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • photosynthesis — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
  • photosynthetic — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
  • polysuspensoid — a suspensoid in which the solid particles are polydisperse.
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • 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.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
  • pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
  • skinny-dipping — to swim in the nude.
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
  • spiny anteater — echidna.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
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