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

  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • ground landlord — a landlord who receives ground rent.
  • guardian angels — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • harlequin snake — the E American coral snake (Micrurus fulvius)
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • harun al-rashid — a.d. 764?–809, caliph of Baghdad 786–809: one of the greatest Abbasids, he was made almost a legendary hero in the Arabian Nights.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
  • hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • industrial arts — (used with a plural verb) the methods of using tools and machinery, as taught in secondary and technical schools.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
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