14-letter words containing n, a, p, r
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
- unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
- unit separator — (character) (US) ASCII character 31.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unprecipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- unpreparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unrecapturable — not able to be recaptured or brought back
- unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- up and running — active, in operation
- upper canadian — a native or inhabitant of Ontario.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- war department — the department of the federal government that, from 1789 until 1947, was responsible for defense and the military establishment: in 1947 it became the Department of the Army, which became part of the Department of Defense when it was established in 1949.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- water plantain — any of several marsh plants of the genus Alisma, esp A. plantago-aquatica, of N temperate regions and Australia, having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed leaves: family Alismataceae
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- waterproofness — The property of being waterproof.
- wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
- weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.