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

  • municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
  • neural computer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
  • neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
  • non-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • nonconceptually — In a nonconceptual manner.
  • nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
  • nonoccupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
  • pancake make-up — make up in cake form applied to the face with a sponge in order to cover up imperfections and even out skin tone
  • paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • past continuous — past progressive.
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • pineapple juice — fruit drink: nectar of pineapple
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
  • practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
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