14-letter words containing a, c, o, u, p
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- public holiday — national day off work
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- 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.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- 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.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
- scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- scrape through — only just succeed
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
- spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
- staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
- start-up costs — the costs of setting up a business or other project
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
- supramolecular — having an organization more complex than that of a molecule.
- tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- 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
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.