14-letter words containing u, l, p, a
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- equity capital — Finance
- eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fallopian tube — 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.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- general public — people in general
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
- gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
- hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hypercalciuria — an abnormally high amount of calcium in the urine.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.