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14-letter words containing u, n, p, a, c

  • contrapuntists — Plural form of contrapuntist.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
  • count palatine — originally an official who administered the king's domains or his justice
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • counterparties — Plural form of counterparty.
  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • courier parent — a person who applies for residency in Canada with the aim of gaining residency for his or her offspring
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • encapsulations — Plural form of encapsulation.
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • huntsman's-cup — a common pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • 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
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • leucocytopenia — leucopenia
  • leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
  • mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
  • 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
  • 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
  • multiplication — the act or process of multiplying or the state of being multiplied.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • non-conceptual — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
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