14-letter words containing t, r, a, p, u, n
- route flapping — flapping router
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- spanish guitar — acoustic guitar.
- spermatogenous — producing spermatozoa.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- super-rational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
- superannuation — the act of superannuating.
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- superessential — beyond or above essence; transcending being
- superimportant — extremely important
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- supernaturally — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- superterranean — situated, or living, on the earth's surface
- supra-national — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- temper tantrum — tantrum.
- temperamentful — full of temperament
- the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
- torque spanner — a spanner having a torque-limiting mechanism which can be set to a predetermined value
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.