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15-letter words containing o, u, p, i

  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • emperor penguin — large Antarctic penguin
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
  • fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • fusospirillosis — (medicine) alternative name of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • golgi apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • golgi-apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • guerrilla group — an organized group of guerrillas
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
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