14-letter words containing u, n, p, r
- immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- in hot pursuit — If you are in hot pursuit of someone, you are chasing after them with great determination.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- instructorship — a person who instructs; teacher.
- insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- inter-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- interpunctuate — to insert punctuation marks in (a written text)
- interpupillary — between the pupils of the eyes: interpupillary distance.
- interrupt list — [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown <[email protected]>. As of late 1992, it had grown to approximately two megabytes in length.
- intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
- ion propulsion — Rocketry. a projected type of propulsion for vehicles in outer space, the exhaust consisting of positive ions and negative electrons repelled from the vehicle by electrostatic forces, resulting in a very high exhaust velocity.
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- jeune premiere — the female juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
- knockout drops — a drug secretly put into someone's drink to cause stupefaction
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
- living picture — tableau (def 3).
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- marathon group — an encounter group that meets for an extended period of time, as eight hours to a week, in the belief that the resultant intensity and intimacy will lead to a more open expression of feelings.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- microcomputing — the use of microcomputers.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
- motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
- mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- mutton snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus analis, inhabiting the warmer parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, valued as food and game.
- naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.