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14-letter words containing r, e, p, u, n

  • 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.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • group of seven — G7.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • 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.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • 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.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
  • in the picture — informed about a given situation
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • 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.
  • inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
  • 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.
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • jeune premiere — the female juvenile lead in a play or movie.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
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