15-letter words containing l, e, s, n, i
- to lie in state — If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried.
- tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
- transliteration — to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language: to transliterate the Greek Χ as ch.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- treasure island — (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
- ultra-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- 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.
- 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.
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
- uncanonicalness — the quality or condition of being uncanonical
- unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- unconstrainable — unable to be confined
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- 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.
- unmaterialistic — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- unmelodiousness — an unmelodious quality or character
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner