14-letter words containing t, a, u, p
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
- private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
- pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudodipteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public statute — public law (def 1).
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- pugilistically — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pull up stakes — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- put on the pan — to criticize severely
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
- quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quinquepartite — divided into or consisting of five parts.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.