14-letter words containing a, u, p
- counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
- cubic capacity — the volume of cylinder of an engine
- cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- departure date — Your departure date is the date that you are expected to leave a hotel or other location.
- departure gate — (in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraft
- departure time — the time of departure of a train, bus, aircraft, etc
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
- dip-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is in the direction of the dip of the fault
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
- drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- eastern europe — geography: Russia, Baltic Republics, etc.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
- equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
- equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.