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

  • sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
  • 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.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • simple equation — linear equation
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • 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.
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncomplainingly — in an unresentful or resigned manner
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
  • unleaded petrol — petrol containing a reduced amount of tetraethyl lead
  • unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
  • unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unpronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
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