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15-letter words containing o, u, p

  • beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • beetroot purple — a deep purple-red; a purple pigment derived from beets.
  • bergius process — a method of hydrogenation formerly used with coal to produce an oil similar to petroleum.
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • blasphemousness — the quality of being blasphemous
  • blood corpuscle — one of the cells in the blood
  • bottom-up model — (programming)   A method for estimating the cost of a complete software project by combining estimates for each component.
  • bouillotte lamp — a table lamp of the 18th century, having two or three adjustable candle brackets and a common shade sliding on a central shaft.
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
  • break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • brussels sprout — Brussels sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages.
  • burden of proof — The burden of proof is the task of proving that you are correct, for example when you have accused someone of a crime.
  • business person — Business people are people who work in business.
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
  • capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • capitulationist — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemoautotrophy — the process of deriving energy through oxidizing inorganic chemical compounds, as opposed to photosynthesis
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
  • chorale prelude — a composition for organ using a chorale as a cantus firmus or as the basis for variations
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
  • clouded leopard — a feline, Neofelis nebulosa, of SE Asia and Indonesia with a yellowish-brown coat marked with darker spots and blotches
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
  • come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
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