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13-letter words containing d, r, u, p

  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
  • indirect jump — (programming)   A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • injured party — victim
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medium-priced — having a price that is neither too high or too low
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
  • nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
  • nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
  • nonproduction — Absence of production.
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