15-letter words containing a, y, u, r
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
- multiculturally — In a multicultural manner.
- natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
- neurochemically — In a neurochemical manner or context.
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- non-documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- northcountryman — a native or inhabitant of the North of England
- not unnaturally — You can use not unnaturally to indicate that the situation you are describing is exactly as you would expect in the circumstances.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- out on your ear — If someone says that you will be out on your ear, they mean that you will be forced to leave a job, an organization or a place suddenly.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
- pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- 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.
- picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
- picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
- pituitary gland — a small, somewhat cherry-shaped double structure attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and constituting the master endocrine gland affecting all hormonal functions in the body, consisting of an anterior region ((anterior pituitary) or (adenohypophysis)) that develops embryonically from the roof of the mouth and that secretes growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACTH, TSH, and MSH, a posterior region ((posterior pituitary) or (neurohypophysis)) that develops from the back of the forebrain and that secretes the hormones vasopressin and oxytocin, and an intermediate part (pars intermedia) derived from the anterior region but joined to the posterior region, that secretes the hormone MSH in lower vertebrates.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- 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.
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- 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.
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- preternaturally — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
- primary product — a product consisting of a natural raw material; an unmanufactured product
- primary quality — any of the qualities inherent in an object, namely quantity, extent, figure, solidity, and motion or rest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.