14-letter words containing a, u, s, p
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- 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.
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- unpassableness — the quality or condition of being unpassable
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpleasantness — the quality or state of being unpleasant.
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unpreparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unspecifically — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- up one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- up to the ears — very deeply
- up-to-dateness — (of persons, buildings, etc.) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
- uspallata pass — a mountain pass in S South America, in the Andes, connecting Mendoza, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. About 12,600 feet (3840 meters) high.
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vapor pressure — the pressure exerted by the molecules of a vapor, especially that part of the total pressure exerted by vapor in a mixture of gases, as by water vapor in air.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects