15-letter words containing l, a, u, n
- thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
- thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
- tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
- training manual — instructional book
- transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
- transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- transubstantial — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- treasure island — (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
- tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
- turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
- turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- ultra-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- ultramarathoner — a person who takes part in an ultramarathon
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- ultrasound scan — sonograph examination
- ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
- un-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
- un-come-at-able — not accessible
- 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.
- una corda pedal — soft pedal (def 1).
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unadulteratedly — in an unadulterated or genuine manner
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
- unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unalaska island — a large volcanic island in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands. Length: 120 km (75 miles). Greatest width: about 40 km (25 miles)
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- unattainability — capable of being attained.
- unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
- uncanonicalness — the quality or condition of being uncanonical
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner