14-letter words containing a, n, u, l, r, s
- labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
- laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
- languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- linear measure — any system for measuring length.
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- nacreous cloud — a rarely seen, luminous, iridescent cloud shaped like a cirrus or altocumulus, approximately 15 miles (24 km) above the earth, and of unknown composition.
- national trust — (in Britain) an organization concerned with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments and areas of the countryside of great beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1895 and incorporated by act of parliament in 1907. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931
- natural causes — If someone dies of or from natural causes, they die because they are ill or old rather than because of an accident or violence.
- natural person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- naturalisation — Alternative spelling of naturalization.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
- non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nontranslucent — Not translucent.
- north st. paul — a town in E Minnesota.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
- numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.