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15-letter words containing p, e, n

  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • 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.
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • gnome computers — (company)   A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • good and proper — thoroughly
  • gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
  • grabber pointer — (operating system)   A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
  • grampian region — a former local government region in NE Scotland, formed in 1975 from Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, and most of Banffshire and Morayshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen, and Moray
  • grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
  • 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.
  • graphic granite — a pegmatite that has crystals of gray quartz imbedded in white or pink microcline in such a manner that they resemble cuneiform writing.
  • grappier cement — a by-product of the calcination of hydraulic lime, having similar properties and made from ground, unslaked lumps.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • green footprint — the impact of a building on the environment
  • green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
  • 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.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • hardy perennial — a plant that lasts three seasons or more and that can withstand freezing temperatures
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • heart operation — a surgical operation performed on the heart
  • heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
  • high-dependency — needing or providing a more than usually high level of healthcare
  • high-principled — possessing or displaying very high moral or ethical principles
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
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