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15-letter words containing s, u, p

  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
  • cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
  • daguerreotypist — an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • escape sequence — (character)   (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
  • follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
  • fusospirillosis — (medicine) alternative name of acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
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