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15-letter words containing u, n, p, t

  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
  • put into effect — law, rule: enforce
  • put on the ritz — ostentatious or pretentious display.
  • put on the spot — If you put someone on the spot, you cause them to have to answer a difficult question or make a difficult decision.
  • put one over on — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • put oneself out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
  • put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • put the nips in — to exert pressure on someone, esp in order to extort money
  • put the wind up — to frighten or alarm
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • quadripartition — A division into four parts.
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
  • quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
  • queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
  • quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • round-trip time — (RTT) A measure of the current delay on a network, found by timing a packet bounced off some remote host. This can be done with ping -s.
  • rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • san luis potosi — a state in central Mexico. 24,415 sq. mi. (63,235 sq. km).
  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-punishment — the act of punishing.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • simple equation — linear equation
  • situs picketing — common situs picketing.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
  • spontaneousness — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
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