15-letter words containing e, n, s, o, u
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- in the doghouse — a small shelter for a dog.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
- injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
- instantaneously — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
- instruction set — (architecture) The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- introsusception — intussusception.
- intussusception — a taking within.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- irreligiousness — The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- je ne sais quoi — an indefinable, elusive quality, especially a pleasing one: She has a certain je ne sais quoi that charms everybody.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- junior minister — politics
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
- langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.