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15-letter words containing p, u, t

  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • 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 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 picture — understand
  • 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.
  • 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]>.
  • golgi apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • golgi-apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • 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.
  • group separator — (character)   (GS) ASCII character 29.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • hop-o'-my-thumb — a very small person, as a midget or dwarf.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • huitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunt the wumpus — (games, history)   (Or "Wumpus") /wuhm'p*s/ A famous fantasy computer game, created by Gregory Yob in about 1973. Hunt the Wumpus appeared in Creative Computing, Vol 1, No 5, Sep - Oct 1975, where Yob says he had come up with the game two years previously, after seeing the grid-based games Hurkle, Snark and Mugwump at People's Computing Company (PCC). He later delivered Wumpus to PCC who published it in their newsletter. ESR says he saw a version including termites running on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1972-3. Magnus Olsson, in his 1992-07-07 USENET article <[email protected]>, posted the BASIC source code of what he believed was pretty much the version that was published in 1973 in David Ahl's "101 Basic Computer Games", by Digital Equipment Corporation. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and M"obius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five "crooked arrows"; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added "anaerobic termites" that ate arrows, bat migrations and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to both (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). There have been many ports including one distributed with SunOS, a freeware one for the Macintosh and a C emulation by ESR.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  • immunocompetent — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
  • insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
  • interpopulation — Between populations.
  • intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
  • intrapreneurial — Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.
  • introsusception — intussusception.
  • intussusception — a taking within.
  • intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.
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