13-letter words containing g, e, t, u, p
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- putting green — green (def 24).
- quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- 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.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- straighten up — stand straighter
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- superstrength — great strength
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- the high jump — an athletic event in which a competitor has to jump over a high bar set between two vertical supports
- the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
- uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- underpainting — the first coat of paint, especially the initial painting on a canvas in which the major areas, tones, colors, and forms are indicated in mass.
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
- untrespassing — not trespassing or infringing
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood