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15-letter words containing i, n, s, u, r, e

  • 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.
  • quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • 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.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • 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
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
  • 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.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
  • rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • run-time system — (programming)   (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management.
  • running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
  • running repairs — repairs, as to a machine or vehicle, that are minor and can be made with little or no interruption in the use of the item
  • russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sarraceniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sarraceniaceae, an American family of pitcher plants
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
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