13-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- durable press — permanent press.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
- exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
- get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
- hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- huff and puff — be out of breath
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- injured party — victim
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
- multimedia pc — multimedia
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- multiplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of multiplicate.
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
- overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.