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14-letter words containing p, u, i, r

  • surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
  • 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
  • tiruchirapalli — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • tiruchirappali — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • 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.
  • triumphal arch — a monumental archway, often erected in permanent materials as a commemorative structure, straddling the line of march of a victorious army during a triumphal procession.
  • 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.
  • trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
  • turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • turmeric paper — paper treated with turmeric: used to indicate the presence of alkalis, which turn it brown, or of boric acid, which turns it reddish-brown.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
  • ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
  • ultrapatriotic — extremely patriotic
  • ultrapractical — extremely practical
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • 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-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
  • unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
  • 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.
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