12-letter words containing n, u, p, e
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inequipotent — not equally powerful or potent
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
- injury-prone — often sustaining injuries
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interrupters — Plural form of interrupter.
- interrupting — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- intussuscept — to take within, as one part of the intestine into an adjacent part; invaginate.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping gene — transposon.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- king penguin — a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, found on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantle plume — plume (def 10).
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- monospermous — having one seed.