13-letter words containing p, u, t, o, a
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tap loop jump — a jump in which the skater takes off from the back outer edge of one skate, makes one full rotation in the air, and lands on the back outer edge of the same skate.
- tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
- te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- tetrapetalous — having four petals.
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- throw a punch — try to hit sb
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- tobacco pouch — a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- truman capote — Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- ultratropical — outside the tropics.
- unappropriate — not appropriate or suitable
- uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
- uncompletable — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
- unopinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
- unpostponable — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- unprotectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- unspontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- unsupportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- up the boohai — thoroughly lost
- up to a point — If you say that something is true up to a point, you mean that it is partly but not completely true.
- up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- upland cotton — a plant, Gossypium hirsutum, of warm regions of the New World, that is the chief commercial cotton crop in the U.S.
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
- uranite group — the mineralogical group including uranites and related minerals.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- water opossum — yapok.
- yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.