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13-letter words containing e, u, p, t, i, c

  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
  • price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
  • prince rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • 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
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
  • recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
  • 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
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • 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
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • supercautious — very or extremely cautious
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • superterrific — more than terrific
  • support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
  • 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
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
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