12-letter words containing n, u, p
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
- entrepreneur — A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- fluphenazine — a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
- fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them.
- funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- ginger group — the most active group within an organization, as a political party.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- huayna capac — c1450–1527? Inca ruler of Peru 1493?–1527? (father of Atahualpa and Huascar).
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hung up (on) — emotionally disturbed (by); neurotic, repressed, etc.
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hungry puppy — Synonym slopsucker.
- hunting pink — scarlet