14-letter words containing s, e, r, p, a
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unit separator — (character) (US) ASCII character 31.
- 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
- 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.
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- up to the ears — very deeply
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- vesper sparrow — a common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song.
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- waterproofness — The property of being waterproof.
- wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
- weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- writer's cramp — spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.
- xenotransplant — xenograft.
- xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
- zeno's paradox — any of various versions of a paradox regarding the relation of the discrete to the continuous and requiring the concept of limit for its satisfactory explanation.