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

  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • 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
  • emperor penguin — large Antarctic penguin
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • entrepreneurial — Characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.
  • entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
  • enumerated type — (programming)   (Or "enumeration") A type which includes in its definition an exhaustive list of possible values for variables of that type. Common examples include Boolean, which takes values from the list [true, false], and day-of-week which takes values [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday]. Enumerated types are a feature of strongly typed languages, including C and Ada. Characters, (fixed-size) integers and even floating-point types could be (but are not usually) considered to be (large) enumerated types.
  • 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
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • 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.
  • fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • gnome computers — (company)   A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • 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.
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
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