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13-letter words containing u, d, p

  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • exhaustipated — Too tired to care about anything.
  • expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • huff and puff — be out of breath
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • humpty dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • humpty-dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
  • indirect jump — (programming)   A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • injured party — victim
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • isospondylous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), an order of soft-finned teleost fishes that includes the herring, salmon, trout, and pike
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
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