15-letter words containing p, u, y, l
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- super-sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner