13-letter words containing n, o, u, p, r
- incorruptibly — In an incorruptible manner.
- 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.
- inopportunity — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
- 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.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- 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.
- mount palomar — Mount, a mountain in S California, NE of San Diego: site of observatory. 6126 feet (1867 meters) high.
- 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
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- nominal group — A nominal group is the same as a noun group.
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
- nonproduction — Absence of production.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
- not your type — If you say that someone is not your type, you mean that they are not the sort of person who you usually find attractive.
- notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- nucleoprotein — any of the class of conjugated proteins occurring in cells and consisting of a protein combined with a nucleic acid, essential for cell division and reproduction.
- nurseryperson — A nurseryman or nurserywoman.