16-letter words containing t, a, u, p
- carpatho-ukraine — a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.
- central european — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Europe
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
- chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
- chemotherapeutic — of or used in chemotherapy
- chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
- chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
- church expectant — the church living in its earthly struggles and in anticipation of God's ultimate victory at the Final Judgment.
- cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
- colorado plateau — a plateau in the SW United States, in N Arizona, NW New Mexico, S Utah, and SW Colorado: location of the Grand Canyon.
- commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
- compute parallel — (language) (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- conspicuity tape — a highly reflective strip or tape used on a vehicle, clothing, etc., to make it more visible in low light.
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- corrugated paper — a packaging material made from layers of heavy paper, the top layer of which is grooved and ridged
- counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
- counterproposals — Plural form of counterproposal.
- court appearance — the appearance of an accused person before a court
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- cracked up to be — alleged or believed to be
- cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
- cultural-capital — Sociology. the skills, education, norms, and behaviors acquired by members of a social group that can give them economic and other advantages: The accumulation of cultural capital is one route to upward mobility.
- debut appearance — debut
- departure lounge — In an airport, the departure lounge is the place where passengers wait before they get onto their plane.
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- dependent clause — a clause that cannot function syntactically as a complete sentence by itself but has a nominal, adjectival, or adverbial function within a larger sentence; subordinate clause (Ex.: She will visit us if she can.)
- depleted uranium — Depleted uranium is a type of uranium that is used in some bombs.
- depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
- deputy secretary — the Deputy Secretary of State or Defense etc
- digital computer — a computer that processes information in digital form.
- diplomatic pouch — a sealed mailbag containing diplomatic correspondence that is sent free of inspection between a foreign office and its diplomatic or consular post abroad or from one such post to another.
- disputatiousness — The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
- duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
- easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
- easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- electron capture — the transformation of an atomic nucleus in which an electron from the atom is spontaneously absorbed into the nucleus. A proton is changed into a neutron, thereby reducing the atomic number by 1. A neutrino is emitted. The process may be detected by the consequent emission of the characteristic X-rays of the resultant element
- emulator program — (networking) (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.