13-letter words containing u, n, d, l, a
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- quadrennially — Every four years.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadruple run — a set of five cards consisting of a three-card run plus two other cards that duplicate different denominations in the run, as 5,5,6,6,7, worth 16 points.
- qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
- quindecennial — of or relating to a period of 15 years or the 15th occurrence of a series, as an anniversary.
- random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
- rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
- russian salad — a salad of cold diced cooked vegetables mixed with Russian dressing
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
- seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
- south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
- sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.