18-letter words containing u, p, c, y
- arachibutyrophobia — Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
- army of occupation — an army that goes into a defeated country to enforce peace terms, keep order, etc.
- auditory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds by humans
- autobiographically — In a autobiographical manner.
- beauty competition — a competition in which the participants, usually women, are judged on their attractiveness, with a prize, and often a title, awarded to the winner
- boundedly complete — (theory) (Or "consistently complete") In domain theory, a complete partial order is boundedly complete if every bounded subset has a least upper bound.
- claustrophobically — In a claustrophobic way.
- colour photography — the art or process of taking and developing photographs in colour
- community hospital — (in the US) a local hospital
- community policing — Community policing is a system in which policemen work only in one particular area of the community, so that everyone knows them.
- community property — the joint ownership of the property of a husband and wife
- complexity measure — (algorithm) A quantity describing the complexity of a computation.
- computer telephony — Computer Telephone Integration
- constituency party — a branch of a political party operating within a constituency
- corpus christi bay — a bay in S Texas, at the mouth of the Nueces River.
- corpuscular theory — the theory, originally proposed by Newton, and revived with the development of the quantum theory, that light consists of a stream of particles
- counter-hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- currency principle — the principle that banks should be permitted to issue notes only against bullion or coin.
- developing country — a nonindustrialized poor country that is seeking to develop its resources by industrialization
- domremy-la-pucelle — a village in Lorraine, NE France, SW of Nancy: birthplace of Joan of Arc.
- duchenne dystrophy — the most common form of muscular dystrophy, usually affecting only boys
- energy consumption — amount of energy used
- european community — an economic and political association of European States that came into being in 1967, when the legislative and executive bodies of the European Economic Community merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community: subsumed into the European Union in 1993
- expected frequency — the number of occasions on which an event may be presumed to occur on average in a given number of trials
- frequency response — the effectiveness with which a circuit, device, or system processes and transmits signals fed into it, as a function of the signal frequency.
- frequency spectrum — The frequency spectrum of an electrical signal is the distribution of the amplitudes and phases of each frequency component against frequency.
- hyper-intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- hyposulfurous acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 4 , next in a series below sulfurous acid, known only in solution or in the form of its salts.
- immunopharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the immune system
- jump discontinuity — a discontinuity of a function at a point where the function has finite, but unequal, limits as the independent variable approaches the point from the left and from the right. Compare jump (def 52).
- mercury-vapor lamp — a lamp producing a light with a high actinic and ultraviolet content by means of an electric arc in mercury vapor.
- mucopolysaccharide — (formerly) glycosaminoglycan.
- multiply-connected — connected but not simply-connected.
- muscular dystrophy — a hereditary disease characterized by gradual wasting of the muscles with replacement by scar tissue and fat, sometimes also affecting the heart.
- neurophysiological — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
- neuropsychological — Of or pertaining to neuropsychology, the relation or combination of brain and mind.
- nuclear capability — If a country has nuclear capability, it is able to produce nuclear power and usually nuclear weapons.
- old curiosity shop — a novel (1840–41) by Dickens.
- orthopedic surgery — corrective operation on bones or joints
- passive vocabulary — all the words, collectively, that a person can understand
- pennsylvania dutch — the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century settlers in Pennsylvania from southwest Germany and Switzerland.
- perlocutionary act — the action of affecting someone by uttering certain words
- persistent cruelty — conduct causing fear of danger to the life or health of a spouse (used in matrimonial proceedings before magistrates)
- physical education — systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program.
- play cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- play catch-up ball — to adjust one's style of play so as to make up for a lack of points, runs, etc.
- plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
- pneumatic conveyor — a tube through which powdered or granular material, such as cement, grain, etc is transported by a flow of air
- product life cycle — the four stages (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline) into one of which the sales of a product fall during its market life
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