14-letter words containing l, o, u, t, r, p
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
- unproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.