13-letter words containing u, n, p, i
- communion cup — a chalice from which a communicant drinks.
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compound time — compound meter
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concupiscence — strong desire, esp sexual desire
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- conspicuously — easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable: a conspicuous error.
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- corruptionist — a person who engages in or upholds corrupt practices, esp. in public life
- couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
- counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.