15-letter words containing u, n, p
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
- kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
- kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
- liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- lleyn peninsula — a peninsula in NW Wales between Cardigan Bay and Caernarfon Bay
- lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- mechanical pulp — groundwood pulp.
- medium-fine pen — a pen with a fairly small point
- menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
- methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
- mount parnassus — a mountain in central Greece, in NW Boeotia: in ancient times sacred to Dionysus, Apollo, and the Muses, with the Castalian Spring and Delphi on its slopes. Height: 2457 m (8061 ft)
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
- multi-binprolog — (language) A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
- multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.