15-letter words containing p, l, u, g
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
- quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
- sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- utility program — system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.