15-letter words containing e, a, t, u, p
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- intrapreneurial — Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.
- iranian plateau — a plateau in SW Asia, mostly in Iran, extending from the Tigris to the Indus rivers. 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,590,000 sq. km).
- jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- laptop computer — portable computer
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- male prostitute — man who has sex for money
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- modulo operator — (mathematics) (mod) The operator that returns the remainder after integer division of its first argument by its second. Written as "%" in C and some other languages. Where the second argument is a power of two, the result can be calculated much more quickly using bitwise and with the appropriate bit-mask.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- moral turpitude — conduct that is regarded as immoral.
- most up-to-date — in accordance with the latest or newest ideas, standards, techniques, styles, etc.; modern.
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- multiple access — multiplexing
- multiple allele — any one of a series of three or more alternative or allelic forms of a gene, only two of which can exist in any normal, diploid individual.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- multiple master — (text, tool, software) (Or "Multiple Master Font") A font that is a mixture of two or more other fonts. A Multiple Master font is a single font containing from two to sixteen master designs (the current implementation limit). A weight factor specifies the contribution of each master design for the creation of a multiple master font instance. A Multiple Master instance is a single interpolation of a multiple master font as created by a user or application.
- multiple-valued — many-valued.
- multispeciality — Alternative form of multispecialty.
- mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neural computer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
- neuroepithelial — Of or relating to the neuroepithelium.
- neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.