15-letter words containing a, y, o, u
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- 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.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- postulationally — in a postulational manner
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- 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.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- 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.
- quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
- query expansion — (information science) Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
- 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.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- radioautography — autoradiography.
- radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.