12-letter words containing u, n, p, a, l, t
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- quantum leap — Physics. an abrupt transition of a system described by quantum mechanics from one of its discrete states to another, as the fall of an electron in an atom to an orbit of lower energy.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- supernatural — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- supplemental — supplementary.
- supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
- supranatural — beyond what is natural; supernatural.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- unacceptable — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unacceptably — in an intolerable manner
- unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncapturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- unduplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- unexceptable — to exclude; leave out: present company excepted.
- unexpectable — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unpatentable — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- unpenetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unrepeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).