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

  • 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)
  • bouillotte lamp — a table lamp of the 18th century, having two or three adjustable candle brackets and a common shade sliding on a central shaft.
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
  • branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
  • brazilian plume — a tropical American plant, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, having hairy, prominently veined leaves and a short, dense cluster of purple or pink flowers, grown in greenhouses or outdoors in warm regions.
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
  • capital surplus — any surplus of a business firm not derived from direct earnings or profits
  • capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • capitulationist — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • 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
  • computationally — from a computational point of view
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
  • corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crispus attucks — Crispus [kris-puh s] /ˈkrɪs pəs/ (Show IPA), 1723?–70, American patriot, probably a fugitive slave, killed in the Boston Massacre.
  • crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
  • cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
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