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

  • compound tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of several sinusoidal waveforms superimposed upon one main one
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
  • conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
  • conceptuality — a conceptualization
  • conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
  • concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
  • cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
  • counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
  • counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
  • counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
  • counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
  • countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
  • counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
  • countrypeople — countryfolk.
  • countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
  • county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
  • crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
  • deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • dental plaque — a filmy deposit on the surface of a tooth consisting of a mixture of mucus, bacteria, food, etc
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
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