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15-letter words containing c, o, l, u, r, i

  • pronunciational — relating to pronunciation
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • 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.
  • quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
  • 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.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • structural iron — iron shaped for use in construction.
  • sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • town councillor — member of municipal government
  • traumatological — relating to traumatology
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