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15-letter words containing a, o, l

  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrogallic acid — pyrogallol
  • pyrogallic-acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous, solid, phenolic compound, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , obtained by heating gallic acid and water: used chiefly as a developer in photography, as a mordant for wool, in dyeing, and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
  • quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
  • quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
  • quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
  • questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • quezon y molina — Manuel Luis [mah-nwel lwees] /mɑˈnwɛl lwis/ (Show IPA), 1878–1944, Philippine political leader; 1st president of the Philippine Commonwealth 1933–44.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • racial minority — a group of a certain race that are in the minority compared to a larger group, the rest of the population, etc
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • radiator grille — a grille in an automobile or the like for air cooling of the liquid in the cooling system.
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
  • radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
  • radiometrically — using a radiometric method, in terms of radiometry
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • radiotelemetric — of or relating to radiotelemetry
  • railway journey — a journey made by railway train
  • railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
  • railway station — train stop, railroad station
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • rationalization — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • real programmer — (job, humour)   (From the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche") A variety of hacker possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal "Real Programmer" likes to program on the bare metal and is very good at it, remembers the binary op codes for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that high-level languages are sissy, and uses a debugger to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been bummed into a state of tenseness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use comments or write documentation: "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appals. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers - because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a Good Thing that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "The Story of Mel". The term itself was popularised by a 1983 Datamation article "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post, still circulating on Usenet and Internet in on-line form.
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • realized losses — Realized losses are losses which have occurred upon the sale of an asset.
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recoil-operated — employing the recoil force of an explosive projectile to prepare the firing mechanism for the next shot.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
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