14-letter words containing a, i, r, p, s
- treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
- unit separator — (character) (US) ASCII character 31.
- unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- writer's cramp — spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.
- xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.