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14-letter words containing t, r, o, u, p, i

  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • espíritu santo — an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • in hot pursuit — If you are in hot pursuit of someone, you are chasing after them with great determination.
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
  • liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
  • lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
  • microcomputing — the use of microcomputers.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
  • motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multiple store — chain store.
  • multiprocessor — parallel processing
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • neurocomputing — computing that makes use of neural networks
  • neutron poison — a nonfissionable material used to absorb neutrons and thus to control nuclear reactions
  • nitro compound — any one of a class of usually organic compounds that contain the monovalent group -NO2 (nitro group or radical), linked to a carbon atom. The commonest example is nitrobenzene, C6H5NO2
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