15-letter words containing t, o, p, u
- counterresponse — a response or reply which opposes or answers a previous response
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
- couples therapy — a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
- defunct process — zombie process
- departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
- expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
- expense account — account for expenses
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
- follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.