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19-letter words containing n, a, p, i, e, s

  • united presbyterian — a member of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, founded in Pittsburgh in 1858 by a union of two Presbyterian groups.
  • universal recipient — a person with blood type AB, able to receive blood from a person of any blood type but able to donate blood only to a person with the same blood type
  • university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
  • unlawful possession — possession of substances or items (such as drugs or guns) for which criminal sanctions exist because they may not be legally possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances
  • unnatural practices — acts which are deemed to be contrary to expected standards of human behaviour
  • up against the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • waste disposal unit — an electrically operated fitment in the plughole of a kitchen sink that breaks up food refuse so that it goes down the waste pipe
  • waterglass painting — stereochromy.
  • welsh mountain pony — a small sturdy but graceful breed of pony used mostly for riding, originally from Wales
  • whispering campaign — the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.
  • whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
  • xenotransplantation — xenograft.
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