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14-letter words containing u, p, s

  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • suspiciousness — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
  • sussex spaniel — one of an English breed of shortlegged spaniels having a golden liver-colored coat.
  • 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
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • 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.
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • 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.
  • trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • turn up trumps — (of a person) to bring about a happy or successful conclusion (to an event, problem, etc), esp unexpectedly
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
  • under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • underrepresent — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
  • unexpectedness — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unit separator — (character)   (US) ASCII character 31.
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • unpassableness — the quality or condition of being unpassable
  • unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • unpleasantness — the quality or state of being unpleasant.
  • unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
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