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17-letter words containing u, n, p, o

  • absolute monopoly — a market situation in which there is only one supplier of a good or service for which there is no acceptable substitute.
  • absolute pathname — (file system)   A pathname relative to the root directory.
  • absorption nebula — a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that absorbs and thus obscures the light from stars behind it, appearing as a dark patch in front of a bright nebula or in an otherwise bright area of sky.
  • accounting period — a period of time for which accounts are drawn up
  • accounting policy — the principles behind the way in which a company keeps its accounts
  • acenaphthoquinone — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic quinone derived from acenaphthene, used as an intermediate for the manufacturing of dyes, pharmaceuticals and pesticides.
  • active suspension — a type of suspension in a car that is controlled by an onboard computer and improves the vehicle's roadholding so that it takes corners, accelerates, and brakes more smoothly
  • acupressure point — any of the specific points on the body where pressure is applied in acupressure
  • addition compound — adduct (def 2).
  • adjective pronoun — a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in His dinner is ready.
  • adjunct professor — a professor employed by a college or university for a specific purpose or length of time and often part-time.
  • adoptive immunity — passive immunity resulting from the administration of sensitized lymphocytes from an immune donor.
  • agent provocateur — An agent provocateur is a person who is employed by the government or the police to encourage certain groups of people to break the law, so they can arrest them or make them lose public support.
  • alternating group — the subgroup consisting of all even permutations, of the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • ammonium sulphate — a white soluble crystalline solid used mainly as a fertilizer and in water purification. Formula: (NH4)2SO4
  • analogue computer — (computer, hardware)   A machine or electronic circuit designed to work on numerical data represented by some physical quantity (e.g. rotation or displacement) or electrical quantity (e.g. voltage or charge) which varies continuously, in contrast to digital signals which are either 0 or 1. For example, the turning of a wheel or changes in voltage can be used as input. Analogue computers are said to operate in real time and are used for research in design where many different shapes and speeds can be tried out quickly. A computer model of a car suspension allows the designer to see the effects of changing size, stiffness and damping.
  • angular leaf spot — a disease of plants, characterized by angular, watery spots on the leaves and fruit, caused by any of several bacteria, as Pseudomonas lachrymans.
  • antifouling paint — paint applied to the portion of a hull below the waterline to poison or discourage marine animals and plants that would otherwise cling to it.
  • antivirus program — antivirus software
  • appointed actuary — An appointed actuary is an actuary appointed by a life insurance company, whose main role is to carry out a regular valuation of the reserves held to pay future policy benefits.
  • aromatic compound — an organic compound that contains one or more benzene or equivalent heterocyclic rings: many such compounds have an agreeable odor.
  • audio description — a facility provided for visually impaired people in which a film, television programme, or play is described through audio technology
  • australopithecine — any of various extinct apelike primates of the genus Australopithecus and related genera, remains of which have been discovered in southern and E Africa. Some species are estimated to be over 4.5 million years old
  • avoirdupois pound — a pound weighing 16 ounces
  • background report — a report on someone or something that sheds light on their background, esp a report on the background of a person convicted of a crime before they are sentenced by a judge
  • beat to the punch — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in striking a blow
  • bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
  • bjarne stroustrup — (person)   The father of C++ and author of the C++ bible.
  • blowout preventer — A blowout preventer is a valve that can be closed when there is uncontrolled flow of fluids.
  • boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
  • bottom-up testing — (programming)   An integration testing technique that tests the low-level components first using test drivers for those components that have not yet been developed to call the low-level components for test. Compare bottom-up implementation.
  • burton-upon-trent — a town in W central England, in E Staffordshire: famous for brewing. Pop: 43 784 (2001)
  • business envelope — an envelope into which standard-size (81⁄2″ × 11″) letterhead stationery can be put with only two folds
  • by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
  • canine parvovirus — a highly contagious viral disease of dogs characterized by vomiting, haemorrhagic diarrhoea, depression, and, in severe cases, death
  • cape horn current — the part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flowing E at Cape Horn.
  • carbon disulphide — a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
  • cartesian product — the set of all ordered pairs of members of two given sets. The product A × B is the set of all pairs <a, b> where a is a member of A and b is a member of B
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • chincoteague pony — a wild pony found on certain islands off the Virginia coast, apparently descended from Moorish ponies shipwrecked in this vicinity in the 16th century.
  • close punctuation — punctuation in which many commas, full stops, etc, are used
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • colour separation — the division of a coloured original into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black so that plates may be made for print reproduction. Separation may be achieved by electronic scanning or by photographic techniques using filters to isolate each colour
  • colour supplement — A colour supplement is a colour magazine which is one of the sections of a newspaper, especially at weekends.
  • communication gap — a lack of communication
  • commuter airplane — air taxi.
  • compilation album — a musical recording consisting of works chosen for a particular purpose or theme
  • complement clause — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
  • complex conjugate — the complex number whose imaginary part is the negative of that of a given complex number, the real parts of both numbers being equal
  • complex-conjugate — one of a group of conjugate words.

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