14-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
- susceptible to — liable to
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
- the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- to the purpose — relevant; pertinent
- torque spanner — a spanner having a torque-limiting mechanism which can be set to a predetermined value
- total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
- trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
- trouser pocket — a pocket in a pair of trousers
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- underrepresent — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unexpectedness — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
- unit separator — (character) (US) ASCII character 31.
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpleasantness — the quality or state of being unpleasant.
- unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- unpresumptuous — not presumptuous; modest
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- up sb's street — If a job or activity is up your street, it is the kind of job or activity that you are very interested in.
- up to the ears — very deeply
- up-to-dateness — (of persons, buildings, etc.) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- uti possidetis — the principle that vests in either of the belligerents at the end of a war all territory actually occupied and controlled by them.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes