13-letter words containing u, n, p, o, t
- pronunciation — Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
- pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
- puritan spoon — a silver spoon having an ovoid bowl and a straight, flat, completely plain stem.
- put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- quality point — Education. grade point.
- quarter point — the fourth part of the distance between any two adjacent points of the 32 marked on a compass, being 2° 48′ 45″.
- quarter pound — a unit of weight equal to a quarter of a pound or 4 ounces avoirdupois
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- ration coupon — a coupon that can be exchanged for a certain quantity of rationed goods
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- republication — publication anew.
- repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
- round-tripper — a home run.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- route planner — a book of road maps
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
- spiritousness — the state of being spiritous
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sports ground — an area of land where sports are played
- sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- stenopetalous — having narrow petals.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subpopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- super-tension — the act of stretching or straining.
- superdominant — submediant.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.