15-letter words containing u, p, o, n, e
- reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
- 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.
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
- 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.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- simple equation — linear equation
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
- 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).
- spinous process — a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebra.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- 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.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
- suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.