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14-letter words containing u, s, r, p, a, t

  • 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.
  • 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
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • 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.
  • unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
  • unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
  • up to the ears — very deeply
  • 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.
  • upton sinclairHarry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
  • 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
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
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