14-letter words containing u, n, p, a, c
- precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- quintuplicates — Plural form of quintuplicate.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- supermasculine — highly masculine
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unappreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- underhand chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop where the axeman stands on the log, which is placed on the ground
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.