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13-letter words containing u, n, s, e

  • on a suddenty — suddenly, unexpectedly
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • on the square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • on your terms — If you do something on your terms, you do it under conditions that you decide because you are in a position of power.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open question — question: invites long answer
  • open universe — a model of the universe in which the universe expands forever because there is not enough mass to counteract the expansion by means of gravitational attraction.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • opportuneness — The state or condition of being opportune.
  • opportunities — Plural form of opportunity.
  • oraculousness — the state of being oraculous
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • osborne house — a house near Cowes on the Isle of Wight: the favourite residence of Queen Victoria, who died there; now a convalescent home
  • out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
  • out one's way — in, to, or near one's neighborhood
  • outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
  • outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outsettlement — a distant or remote settlement.
  • outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • overconscious — excessively conscious
  • overconstruct — to construct excessively
  • overingenious — ingenious to a fault
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paramenstruum — the four days before and first four days of menstruation
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
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