12-letter words containing t, a, u, p
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- open account — current account (def 1).
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- opium addict — someone who is addicted to the dried juice extracted from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy
- optoacoustic — relating to the relationship between light and sound
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
- paper cutter — any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
- paper-cutter — any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paraguay tea — maté.
- paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
- particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pass through — an act of passing.
- pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- pay court to — to court, as for favor or love
- paying guest — lodger
- payout ratio — the ratio between dividends paid out and earnings per share of common stock within a time period.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.