14-letter words containing d, u, p, l
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- squared splice — square splice.
- striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- under-employed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- zona pellucida — the transparent, noncellular layer surrounding the ovum of mammals, often having radial striations.