12-letter words containing u, p, i
- unsurprising — predictable, expected
- unsuspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- unsuspicious — not feeling suspicion
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- up and doing — busy; active
- up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- upper circle — the seats in a theatre that are situated above the dress circle
- upright bass — double bass
- uproariously — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- voluptuosity — full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
- wild pumpkin — calabazilla.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.
- xiphisternum — The lowest part of the sternum; the xiphoid process.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.