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

  • indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
  • 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).
  • infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
  • 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.
  • inopportunity — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
  • 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.
  • intracapsular — Within a capsule.
  • 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.
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • 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.
  • luang prabang — Louangphrabang.
  • 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.
  • lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
  • malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
  • 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.
  • mount palomar — Mount, a mountain in S California, NE of San Diego: site of observatory. 6126 feet (1867 meters) high.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mulier puisne — the legitimate son of parents whose first son was illegitimate.
  • multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
  • multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
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