15-letter words containing d, u, r, y, e
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
- secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- unadulteratedly — in an unadulterated or genuine manner
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- under secretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- under-secretary — UK ministerial position
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
- unintermittedly — in an unintermitted manner
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- unprecedentedly — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.