15-letter words containing t, o, p, u, y
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- petroleum jelly — sticky substance used as lubricant
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- postulationally — in a postulational manner
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- 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.
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- 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.
- to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner