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15-letter words containing l, a, p, u, t

  • puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
  • pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
  • pullman kitchen — a kitchenette, often recessed into a wall and concealed by double doors or a screen.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • 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.
  • rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
  • s'il vous plait — if you please; please
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • san luis potosi — a state in central Mexico. 24,415 sq. mi. (63,235 sq. km).
  • sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
  • simple equation — linear equation
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • 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 feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
  • special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • super-sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
  • supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
  • superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
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