15-letter words containing u, n, p, a
- cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
- capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
- capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
- capitulationist — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
- cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
- champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
- chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- colourpoint cat — a cat with increased pigmentation of cooler points of the body, such as ears, feet, tail, nose, and scrotum (in males)
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- computationally — from a computational point of view
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
- conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
- conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
- consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
- copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- cyanide capsule — a capsule containing cyanide, traditionally given to spies and others so that they can commit suicide to avoid capture
- daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- die standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- 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
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
- draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- 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.
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
- enumerated type — (programming) (Or "enumeration") A type which includes in its definition an exhaustive list of possible values for variables of that type. Common examples include Boolean, which takes values from the list [true, false], and day-of-week which takes values [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday]. Enumerated types are a feature of strongly typed languages, including C and Ada. Characters, (fixed-size) integers and even floating-point types could be (but are not usually) considered to be (large) enumerated types.
- 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.