12-letter words containing e, a, t, u, p
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- hautes-alpes — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- hyposulphate — a salt derived from hyposulphuric acid
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantle plume — plume (def 10).
- maple butter — thickened maple syrup
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- metacomputer — an interconnected and balanced set of computers that operate as a single unit
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- multipartite — divided into several or many parts; having several or many divisions.
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
- multiseptate — having several septa or chambers
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- name capture — (reduction) In beta reduction, when a term containing a free occurrence of a variable v is substituted into another term where v is bound the free v becomes spuriously bound or "captured". E.g. (\ x . \ y . x y) y --> \ y . y y (WRONG) This problem arises because two distinct variables have the same name. The most common solution is to rename the bound variable using alpha conversion: (\ x . \ y' . x y') y --> \ y' . y y' Another solution is to use de Bruijn notation. Note that the argument expression, y, contained a free variable. The whole expression above must therefore be notionally contained within the body of some lambda abstraction which binds y. If we never reduce inside the body of a lambda abstraction (as in reduction to weak head normal form) then name capture cannot occur.
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour