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13-letter words containing a, p, o, n, e, u

  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • mountain pine — a European pine tree which grows on mountains
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
  • neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
  • non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • nonconceptual — Not of a conceptual nature.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • outmanipulate — to surpass in manipulation
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
  • pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
  • panleucopenia — a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • pauperization — the act or process of making a pauper of or impoverishing
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
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