14-letter words containing a, c, p, u
- count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- cubic capacity — the volume of cylinder of an engine
- cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equity capital — Finance
- escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
- eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- general public — people in general
- generic markup — (text) In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.