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13-letter words containing p, u, n, y

  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • pycnoconidium — a pycnidiospore
  • quality point — Education. grade point.
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
  • stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
  • subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • sunny side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
  • sunny-side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
  • sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
  • tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
  • tyrian purple — Also called Tyrian dye. a highly prized crimson or purple dye of classical antiquity, originally obtained at great expense from a certain shellfish: later shown to be an indigo derivative and synthetically produced, and now replaced by other synthetic dyes.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
  • underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • unexpectantly — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
  • unexplainably — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
  • unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
  • uniparentally — in a uniparental manner
  • unperceivably — imperceptibly
  • unperceivedly — without being perceived; so as not to be perceived
  • unpleasurably — without pleasure, in an unpleasurable manner
  • unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
  • unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
  • unpunctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
  • unrepentantly — repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance.
  • unrepentingly — in an unrepenting or impenitent manner
  • unspiritually — in an unspiritual manner
  • unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
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