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

  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • impetuousness — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • importunities — Plural form of importunity.
  • in one's cups — a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
  • 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).
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
  • interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
  • journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
  • minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
  • mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
  • monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
  • monopolylogue — a theatrical entertainment in which the same performer plays several parts or characters.
  • 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.
  • neurocomputer — 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.
  • neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • 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.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
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