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13-letter words containing c, a, l, i, p, u

  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
  • scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
  • ultraphysical — extremely physical
  • ultratropical — outside the tropics.
  • unappreciable — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
  • uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • uncomplaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
  • uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
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