14-letter words containing p, u, r, a
- the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
- 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.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- 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.
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- torque spanner — a spanner having a torque-limiting mechanism which can be set to a predetermined value
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- 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.
- 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.
- trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- 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.
- 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.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- 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
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- 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).
- 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
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- 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.
- 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.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- 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.