13-letter words containing l, a, p, u
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffalo plaid — a plaid with large blocks formed by the intersection of two different-color yarns, typically red and black.
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
- burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
- callithumpian — relating to or resembling a callithump
- campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corpora lutea — corpus luteum
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.