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15-letter words containing e, s, t, r, u

  • pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
  • pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • pulitzer prizes — one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • 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.
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
  • queen's proctor — a British judiciary officer who may intervene in probate, nullity, or divorce actions when collusion, suppression of evidence, or other irregularities are alleged.
  • question master — quizmaster.
  • question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • 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
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
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