29-letter words containing o, u, p
- partial differential equation — a differential equation containing partial derivatives.
- past the hour/before the hour — If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed by before the hour or past the hour.
- posttraumatic stress disorder — a mental disorder, as battle fatigue, occurring after a traumatic event outside the range of usual human experience, and characterized by symptoms such as reliving the event, reduced involvement with others, and manifestations of autonomic arousal such as hyperalertness and exaggerated startle response. Abbreviation: PTSD.
- put one's foot in one's mouth — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- put sb/go through their paces — If you put someone through their paces or make them go through their paces, you get them to show you how well they can do something.
- put someone through his paces — to test the ability of someone
- put the cart before the horse — a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- put the cat among the pigeons — to introduce some violently disturbing new element
- put the moves (or a move) on — to attempt to seduce by the use of deceptive tricks or devices
- resource reservation protocol — (protocol) (RSVP) A protocol that supports quality of service.
- roll out the red carpet (for) — to welcome and entertain in a grand and impressive style
- royal canadian mounted police — Canadian police on horseback
- run something up the flagpole — to pursue a tentative course of action in order to gauge the reaction it receives
- scanning tunneling microscope — a device that uses a moving needle and the tunnel effect to generate a maplike image of the atomic surface structure of matter, thereby achieving even greater magnification than the scanning electron microscope.
- secure file transfer protocol — SSH File Transfer Protocol
- suppressed carrier modulation — an amplitude-modulated wave in which only the sidebands are transmitted, the carrier being removed
- the exception proves the rule — the exception tests the rule
- to keep your head above water — If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
- training opportunities scheme — a former government scheme offering vocational training to unemployed people
- united kingdom unionist party — a political party (1995–2008), based in Northern Ireland: it was non-sectarian but opposed to a united Ireland
- visual basic for applications — (programming) (VBA) Microsoft's common language for manipulating components of its Microsoft Office suite. It is used as the macro language for these applications and is the primary means of customising and extending them. A VBA program operates on objects representing the application and the entities it manipulates, e.g. a spreadsheet or a range of cells in Microsoft Excel.
- war of the spanish succession — a war (1701–14) fought by Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Prussia against France and Spain, arising from disputes about the succession in Spain after the death of Charles II of Spain.