15-letter words containing p, u, r, l
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- concurrent lisp — (language) A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
- copper sulphate — a copper salt found naturally as chalcanthite and made by the action of sulphuric acid on copper oxide. It usually exists as blue crystals of the pentahydrate that form a white anhydrous powder when heated: used as a mordant, in electroplating, and in plant sprays. Formula: CuSO4
- copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
- corpus callosum — the band of white fibres that connects the cerebral hemispheres in mammals
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
- crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
- double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
- electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
- fusospirillosis — (medicine) alternative name of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- golgi apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.