14-letter words containing u, p, i, n, g, t
- splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.