15-letter words containing l, u, s, t, r
- hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterogeneously — different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
- high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- horticulturists — Plural form of horticulturist.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- 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.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- inquisitorially — In an inquisitorial manner.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
- interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- jewelers' putty — putty powder.
- joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.