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15-letter words containing i, n, d, o, r, e

  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • to one's credit — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • trial and error — experimentation or investigation in which various methods or means are tried and faulty ones eliminated in order to find the correct solution or to achieve the desired result or effect.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • trojan asteroid — one of a number of asteroids that have the same mean motion and orbit as Jupiter, preceding or following the planet by a longitude of 60°
  • trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
  • trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
  • truman doctrine — the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
  • turn inside out — If you say that something has been turned inside out, you mean that it is the opposite of what you expect or think it should be.
  • turnaround time — the total time taken between the submission of a program for execution and the return of the complete output to the customer
  • ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • un-romanticized — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • uncomprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
  • under suspicion — suspected of a crime
  • under-education — to educate too little or poorly.
  • underestimation — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
  • underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • underproduction — production that is less than normal or than is required by the demand.
  • undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
  • unearned income — income received from property, as interest, dividends, or the like.
  • unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
  • unindoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • uranium dioxide — a black, crystalline compound, UO 2 , insoluble in water, used in nuclear fuel rods, in ceramics, and pigments.
  • url redirection — (web)   (Or "URL forwarding") When a web server tells the client browser to obtain a certain requested page from a different location. This is controlled by directives in the server's configuration files or a "Location: header output by a CGI script. The web server stores all its documents in a directory tree rooted at some configured directory, known as its "document root". Normally the URI part of the URL (the part after the hostname) is used as a relative path from the document root to the desired file or directory. A redirect directive allows the server administrator to specify exceptions to this general mapping from URL to file name by telling the browser "try this URL instead". The new URL may be on the same server or a different one and may itself be subject to redirection. The user is normally unaware of this process except that it may introduce extra delay while the browser sends the new request and the browser will usually display the new URL rather than the one the user originally requested.
  • vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
  • video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
  • video recording — sth filmed on videotape
  • videoconference — a teleconference conducted via television equipment.
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
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