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15-letter words containing p, o, n, i, a

  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • tropicalization — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • unary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which one element is used to yield a single result, as squaring or taking the square root.
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • undisappointing — not disappointing
  • unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
  • unix conspiracy — [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) - but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this "Unix virus" theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
  • unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
  • unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
  • unproportionate — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
  • unprotestantize — to make something (e.g. a church, country, etc) a religion other than Protestant
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • upper arlington — a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
  • uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
  • utility company — a company which supplies utilities, such as gas, electricity, phones, etc
  • utopia planitia — Astronomy. a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars that was the landing site of the Viking II space probe on September 3, 1976.
  • vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
  • variola porcina — an acute infectious viral disease of pigs characterized by skin eruptions
  • vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
  • vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
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