13-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- trade dispute — a dispute between workers and their employer
- trade surplus — If a country has a trade surplus, it exports more than it imports.
- ujung pandang — a seaport on SW Sulawesi (Celebes), in central Indonesia.
- unaccompanied — not accompanied; alone: The shipment arrived unaccompanied by an invoice.
- unanticipated — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
- unappreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unapprehended — to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority: The police apprehended the burglars.
- uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- uncompanioned — not having a companion; unaccompanied
- uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- undepreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- under a spell — in a trance
- under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
- under-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
- underprepared — inadequately prepared
- understrapper — an underling.
- unemancipated — not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.: a modern, emancipated woman.
- unencompassed — to form a circle about; encircle; surround: He built a moat to encompass the castle.
- unimpassioned — not filled with passion or affected by strong emotion
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- unmanipulated — not manipulated
- unopinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
- unparallelled — not paralleled; unequaled or unmatched; peerless; unprecedented: unparalleled athletic ability.
- unparasitized — not host to a parasite or parasites
- unpasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- unperpetrated — not performed or committed
- unpersuadable — not open or susceptible to persuasion
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- unrepatriated — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- unreprimanded — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- unspecialized — not specialized
- up and around — recovered from illness
- up-and-coming — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- upgradability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upland cotton — a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.
- upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
- ups and downs — good and bad experiences
- uttar pradesh — a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). Capital: Lucknow.
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.