15-letter words containing u, l, p
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- crepuscular ray — a twilight ray of sunlight shining through breaks in high clouds and illuminating dust particles in the air.
- crystal pick-up — a record-player pick-up in which the current is generated by the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal caused by the movements of the stylus
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
- double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
- duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
- electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- epsilon squared — (jargon) A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
- fallopian tubes — 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 grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
- follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.