14-letter words containing p, l, e, n, u
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disk duplexing — (hardware, storage) A variation on disk mirroring where, as well as redundant disk drives, a second disk controller or host adapter is also present.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- duplex printer — a printer that can make double-sided printouts
- dust explosion — an explosion caused by the ignition of an inflammable dust, such as flour or sawdust, in the air
- earned surplus — retained earnings.
- encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
- enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fallopian tube — 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.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- general public — people in general
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- interpupillary — between the pupils of the eyes: interpupillary distance.
- interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
- japanese quail — any of several small Old World quails of the genus Coturnix, especially C. japonica (Japanese quail) widely used as a laboratory animal.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- kola peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
- kola-peninsula — Also called Kola Peninsula. a peninsula in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, between the White and Barents seas.
- lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
- leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant