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15-letter words containing s, o, u, p, e

  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
  • superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
  • surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
  • to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
  • trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
  • turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • un-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • under suspicion — suspected of a crime
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unprepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unprotected sex — an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
  • unprotectedness — the state of being unprotected or defenceless against attack
  • 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.
  • up one's sleeve — secretly ready
  • up one's street — (just) what one knows or likes best
  • up to your ears — If you are up to your ears in something, it is taking up all of your time, attention, or resources.
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