15-letter words containing u, n, p, e, t, i
- question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- repeating group — (database) Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- round-trip time — (RTT) A measure of the current delay on a network, found by timing a packet bounced off some remote host. This can be done with ping -s.
- rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-punishment — the act of punishing.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- simple equation — linear equation
- situs picketing — common situs picketing.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- 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.
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- turpentine tree — a tropical African leguminous tree, Copaifera mopane, yielding a hard dark wood and a useful resin
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- unary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which one element is used to yield a single result, as squaring or taking the square root.
- uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.