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15-letter words containing a, u, l, d, e, r

  • nil desperandum — never despair
  • nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
  • nuclear warhead — a warhead containing a fission or fusion bomb.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
  • shoulder season — a travel season between peak and off-peak seasons, especially spring and fall, when fares tend to be relatively low.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • squadron leader — air-force officer
  • standard clause — a clause which is inserted as standard into certain types of contracts or agreements
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
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