15-letter words containing n, e, u, p, h
- put on the ritz — ostentatious or pretentious display.
- put on the spot — If you put someone on the spot, you cause them to have to answer a difficult question or make a difficult decision.
- put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
- put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- put the nips in — to exert pressure on someone, esp in order to extort money
- put the wind up — to frighten or alarm
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- self-punishment — the act of punishing.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
- the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
- trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
- uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- whoopee cushion — a type of cushion or pillow used as a practical joke that, when sat upon, produces a loud noise resembling flatulence.