14-letter words containing e, c, i, p
- topic sentence — a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.
- trade-in price — the price of a new article when a used article is given in part payment
- traffic police — a unit of a police force, whose job is to control traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- transparencies — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- tripe-de-roche — rock tripe.
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- turmeric paper — paper treated with turmeric: used to indicate the presence of alkalis, which turn it brown, or of boric acid, which turns it reddish-brown.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- twopenny piece — a two pence coin
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unprecipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unspecifically — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- upper canadian — a native or inhabitant of Ontario.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- vincennes lisp — (language) (VLISP) A dialect of Lisp resulting from development, starting in 1971, of Lisp interpreters and compilers at the University of Paris VIII - Vincennes. VLISP interpreters and compilers were designed to run on small computers.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- voice response — output of information from a computer system in the form of speech rather than displayed text
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- well-practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.