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17-letter words containing n, s, p

  • the night's a pup — it's early yet
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • the perfect tense — the tense of a verb that indicates that the action has been completed
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • the present tense — the form of a verb that expresses an action that is happening now or at the time of speaking
  • the upper regions — the sky; heavens
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
  • this can't happen — can't happen
  • thompson seedless — a yellow, seedless variety of grape used in producing raisins.
  • thousandths-place — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • till eulenspiegel — a legendary German peasant of the 14th century whose practical jokes yielded many stories.
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • to open your eyes — If something opens your eyes, it makes you aware that something is different from the way that you thought it was.
  • to slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget it.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • trans-mississippi — across or beyond the Mississippi River.
  • transdermal patch — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
  • uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undercompensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unprecedentedness — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • up/raise the ante — If you up the ante or raise the ante, you increase your demands when you are in dispute or fighting for something.
  • utopian socialism — (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
  • vacant possession — ownership of an unoccupied house or property, any previous owner or tenant having departed
  • vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vasovagal syncope — a faint brought on by excessive activity of the vagus nerve, causing the heart to slow and the blood pressure to fall. It can be caused by fear, choking, or stomach cramps and has no lasting effects
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
  • zero-coupon bonds — Zero-coupon bonds are bonds with no coupons that do not pay interest, and are sold at a large discount from their face value.
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