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14-letter words containing u, l, p

  • contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • councilpersons — Plural form of councilperson.
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
  • country people — people who live in the country
  • coupon clipper — a well-to-do person much of whose income is derived from clipping and cashing coupons from coupon bonds.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • crystal pickup — a piezoelectric vibration pickup or detector, often used on electric phonographs
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • dip-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is in the direction of the dip of the fault
  • diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • disk duplexing — (hardware, storage)   A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
  • disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
  • 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
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • 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).
  • duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
  • duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
  • dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
  • earned surplus — retained earnings.
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equity capital — Finance
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