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15-letter words containing a, d, u, p

  • accrued expense — an expense incurred but not yet paid, as accrued interest on notes payable.
  • adjective group — An adjective group or adjectival group is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football'. An adjective group can also consist simply of an adjective.
  • advocate depute — a Scottish law officer with the functions of public prosecutor
  • adygei republic — a constituent republic of SW Russia, bordering on the Caucasus Mountains: chiefly agricultural but with some mineral resources. Capital: Maikop. Pop: 447 000 (2002). Area: 7600 sq km (2934 sq miles)
  • airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
  • alexandroupolis — a port in NE Greece, in W Thrace. Pop: 52 720 (2001 est)
  • all mockered up — dressed up
  • ammunition dump — a place where ammunition is left
  • aneroid capsule — a box or chamber of thin metal, partially exhausted of air, used in the aneroid barometer and pressure altimeter.
  • anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • asclepiadaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae
  • audience appeal — the quality of being attractive to an audience
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
  • autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barium peroxide — a gray-white powder, BaO2, used as a bleach and in making hydrogen peroxide
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • butter spreader — a small knife with a wide, flat blade, as for spreading butter on bread or rolls.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.

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