13-letter words containing s, u, p
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
- capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
- capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.