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15-letter words containing d, u, p, l, e

  • pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • rod pumped well — A rod pumped well is a well with a nodding donkey to remove fluid mechanically.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • simple pendulum — a hypothetical apparatus consisting of a point mass suspended from a weightless, frictionless thread whose length is constant, the motion of the body about the string being periodic and, if the angle of deviation from the original equilibrium position is small, representing simple harmonic motion (distinguished from physical pendulum).
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
  • special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
  • u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
  • udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
  • un-supplemented — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
  • unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
  • undercapitalize — to provide an insufficient amount of capital for (a business enterprise).
  • underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • underpublicized — lacking publicity
  • undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
  • uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
  • unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unprecedentedly — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • vincent de paul — Saint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
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