14-letter words containing u, d, p
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioautograph — autoradiograph.
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- red-lead putty — a compound for caulking pipe joints, made of red lead, white lead, and boiled linseed oil.
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
- rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- sesquisulphide — a sulphide containing three sulphur atoms to two of some other element
- sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- sound pressure — Also called excess sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure. the difference between the pressure at a point in a medium through which a sound wave is passing and the static pressure of the medium at that point.
- south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
- sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
- spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- squared splice — square splice.
- striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.