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15-letter words containing u, n, p, o, l

  • drying-up cloth — a tea towel
  • duelling pistol — one of a pair of identical pistols made specifically for use in duels
  • duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
  • edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
  • 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.
  • expulsion order — a legal document ordering someone's expulsion
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • full employment — all of workforce is employed
  • full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
  • funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • groundwood pulp — wood pulp consisting of groundwood that has not been cooked or chemically treated, used for making newsprint and other poorer grades of paper.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
  • inconspicuously — not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
  • interpopulation — Between populations.
  • intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
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