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16-letter words containing a, u, p

  • quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
  • quasi-diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • queen's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • query by example — (database, language)   (QBE) A user-friendly query language developed by Moshé Zloof of IBM in 1975.
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
  • reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • riau archipelago — a group of islands belonging to Indonesia, off the SE coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. 36,510 sq. mi. (94,561 sq. km).
  • river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
  • room temperature — a comfortable temperature range indoors, usually considered to be 68 to 77°F (20 to 25°C).
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saturation point — the point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution, chemical combination, etc.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • share repurchase — A share repurchase is a situation in which a company buys back its own shares.
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
  • spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
  • spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
  • speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • specific surface — The specific surface is the ratio of a particle's surface area to its volume or mass.
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spiritual incest — marriage or a sexual relationship between persons related by spiritual affinity or with a person under a solemn vow of chastity
  • spiritualization — to make spiritual.
  • spit-and-sawdust — (of a pub) shabby, dirty, and basic
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • sql access group — (body)   The origanisaton which defined Call-Level Interface, on which ODBC is based. It is now part of X/Open.
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • start-up capital — capital used to set up a new business
  • start-up company — new business
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