16-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- full speed ahead — train: at top speed
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
- gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
- gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
- heads-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.
- hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
- hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
- indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- jump up and down — bounce
- keep under wraps — not reveal
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
- lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- look up and down — to search everywhere
- mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
- man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
- miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
- mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
- on the up and up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- on the up-and-up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- orographic cloud — any cloud whose existence and form are largely controlled by the disturbed flow of air over and around mountains, as the banner cloud and crest cloud.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- padded shoulders — (on a garment) shoulders lined, stuffed, or filled out with soft material, esp in order to give them a higher or wider shape
- paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
- painted trillium — a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.
- panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- perez de cuellar — Javier [hah-vyer] /hɑˈvyɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1920, Peruvian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1982–91; prime minister of Peru 2000–2001.
- perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity