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15-letter words containing l, u, a, n, e

  • surgeon general — the chief of medical services in one of the armed forces.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • target language — the language into which a text is to be translated from another language. Compare source language (def 1).
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tequila sunrise — a cocktail, usually consisting of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine. The ingredients have different densities and settle into bands of colour that resemble the sky at sunrise
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the ultimate in — The ultimate in something is the best or most advanced example of it.
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • 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
  • 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
  • transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
  • 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
  • ultramarathoner — a person who takes part in an ultramarathon
  • 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.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
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