14-letter words containing p, e, r, i, t, u
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
- superannuation — the act of superannuating.
- supercelestial — located above the heavens; above the heavens or celestial regions
- supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
- supereffective — very or extremely effective
- superefficient — extremely efficient
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superimportant — extremely important
- superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
- superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
- superior court — the court of general jurisdiction found in many states of the United States.
- supernutrition — excessive nourishment or overeating
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
- superscription — the act of superscribing.
- superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
- supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- supersensitize — to render or make supersensitive.
- supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
- superstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- superstruction — the action of superstructing
- superstructive — built onto a structure
- supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
- supportiveness — giving support.
- supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
- surprise party — a party or celebration planned for someone as a surprise.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- take a picture — capture sb or sth on camera
- tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- 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.
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
- trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.