14-letter words containing p, u, r, a
- 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.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unprecipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- unpreparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unproportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unrecapturable — not able to be recaptured or brought back
- unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- up and running — active, in operation
- up to the ears — very deeply
- up to the mark — acceptably good
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upper canadian — a native or inhabitant of Ontario.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- upton sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- utility player — a player who is capable of playing competently in any of several positions
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vapor pressure — the pressure exerted by the molecules of a vapor, especially that part of the total pressure exerted by vapor in a mixture of gases, as by water vapor in air.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
- water purifier — a device that purifies water
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
- yom kippur war — a war that began on Yom Kippur in 1973 with the attack of Israel by Egypt, Syria, and Iraq: Israel recovered most of its initial losses.
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.