14-letter words containing p, u, l, c
- public holiday — national day off work
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- public inquiry — an official enquiry, usually into a serious accident or other disaster, or into planning applications. Interested parties can attend, and contribute.
- public library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public opinion — the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public statute — public law (def 1).
- public utility — a business enterprise, as a public-service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Compare utility (def 3).
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- routing policy — (networking) Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
- scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
- scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- sclerophyllous — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- self-composure — calmness and self-possession
- self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- speculum metal — any of several bronze alloys with a high tin content, often containing other materials, as silver, brass, lead, zinc, or arsenic, used for making mirrors and reflectors.
- spiritualistic — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.