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13-letter words containing u, n, p, r, e

  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • importunities — Plural form of importunity.
  • in perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • in-perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • indirect jump — (programming)   A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • injured party — victim
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • interruptible — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
  • interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
  • interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
  • intrapreneurs — Plural form of intrapreneur.
  • japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
  • jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
  • journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
  • jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • metering pump — A metering pump is a device used to pump precise amounts of liquids over a period of time.
  • micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
  • minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
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