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19-letter words containing n, u, p

  • exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
  • executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
  • finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
  • first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
  • floating-point unit — (hardware)   (FPU) A floating-point accelerator, usually in a single integrated circuit, possible on the same IC as the central processing unit.
  • focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
  • focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
  • follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
  • four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
  • franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
  • gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
  • get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
  • ground-plane aerial — a quarter-wave vertical dipole aerial in which the electrical image forming the other quarter-wave section is formed by reflection in a system of radially disposed metal rods or in a conductive sheet
  • gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
  • gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
  • have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
  • hexafluoroplatinate — (chemistry) The univalent anion PtF6- prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certain metals or other elements.
  • hold up one's hands — to confess a mistake or misdeed
  • hop, skip, and jump — a short distance
  • hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • huffing and puffing — empty threats or objections; bluster
  • hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
  • hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
  • hyperfine structure — the splitting of the lines of an atomic spectrum, produced by the angular momentum of the nucleus of the atom.
  • idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
  • immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
  • imperative language — (language)   Any programming language that specifies explicit manipulation of the state of the computer system, not to be confused with a procedural language, which specifies an explicit sequence of steps to perform. An example of an imperative (but non-procedural) language is a data manipulation language for a relational database management system. This specifies changes to the database but does not necessarily require anyone to specify a sequence of steps. Both contrast with declarative languages, which specify neither explicit state manipulation nor a sequence of steps.
  • in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
  • in particular terms — If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.
  • incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
  • index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
  • indian paint fungus — a common woody hoof-shaped fungus, Echinodontium tinctorium, found on conifers in western North America and believed to have been used as a dye by Pacific Northwest Indians.
  • industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
  • input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
  • instantaneous speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the rate of change of position with respect to time at a particular point. It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc
  • investment compound — investment (def 11).
  • iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
  • isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
  • judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
  • jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
  • jumping bristletail — any of several thysanuran insects that live in dark, warm, moist places, as under leaves, bark, and dead tree trunks and along rocky seacoasts, and are active jumpers, making erratic leaps when disturbed.
  • jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keep sb in suspense — If you keep or leave someone in suspense, you deliberately delay telling them something that they are very eager to know about.
  • keep up appearances — If you keep up appearances, you try to behave and dress in a way that people expect of you, even if you can no longer afford it.
  • kick up one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • land of opportunity — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
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