14-letter words containing p, u, d, e
- south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
- spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- squared splice — square splice.
- striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- superintendent — a person who oversees or directs some work, enterprise, establishment, organization, district, etc.; supervisor.
- supersaturated — to increase the concentration of (a solution) beyond saturation; saturate abnormally.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
- the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- 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.
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
- uncomprehended — not comprehended or understood
- uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- under-employed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.