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15-letter words containing u, p, o, n, m

  • get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • get the jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • gnome computers — (company)   A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
  • immunocompetent — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • kommunizma peak — a mountain in SE Tajikistan in the Pamirs: the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Height: 7495 m (24 590 ft)
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • multum in parvo — much in a small space
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
  • murphy-o'connor — Cormac. born 1932, British cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (2000–09)
  • neural computer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
  • neuroepithelium — Embryology. the part of the embryonic ectoderm that gives rise to the nervous system.
  • nitramino group — the univalent group –NHNO 2 .
  • non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
  • noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
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