14-letter words containing r, a, p, t, u, i
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
- interpupillary — between the pupils of the eyes: interpupillary distance.
- intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
- junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
- motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
- multi-part key — compound key
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonrepudiation — (legal) Assurance that a contract cannot later be denied by either of the parties involved.
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
- paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
- paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
- para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- parquet circle — parterre (def 1).
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- partial vacuum — an enclosed space from which part of the air or another gas has been removed.
- particularized — individualized