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16-letter words containing n, a, l, o, r

  • ultranationalist — an advocate of ultranationalism.
  • uncollateralized — lacking or needing no collateral: uncollateralized loans.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
  • underutilization — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
  • universalization — to make universal.
  • unproportionally — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • upsilon particle — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  • utilization rate — The utilization rate is the percentage of the total equipment or refinery which is involved in producing something.
  • valence electron — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
  • valency electron — an electron in the outer shell of an atom, responsible for forming chemical bonds
  • vancouver island — an island of SW Canada, off the SW coast of British Columbia: separated from the Canadian mainland by the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Sound, and from the US mainland by Juan de Fuca Strait; the largest island off the W coast of North America. Chief town: Victoria. Pop: 706 243 (2001). Area: 32 137 sq km (12 408 sq miles)
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • vertebral column — spinal column.
  • victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
  • video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
  • virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
  • vitruvian scroll — a scroll forming a stylized wave pattern.
  • vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
  • voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
  • voluntary school — a school that promotes specific religious beliefs and which is funded by a local education authority but was not established by the authority
  • voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
  • voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • volunteer bureau — an agency that matches up people wishing to do voluntary work with appropriate voluntary organizations
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • willow ptarmigan — a ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus, of arctic and subarctic regions of the New and Old Worlds, having brown, mottled plumage in summer and white plumage in winter.
  • wilson's warbler — a North American warbler, Wilsonia pusilla, having yellow plumage and a black patch on top of the head.
  • windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
  • windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
  • woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
  • woodland caribou — a variety of caribou inhabiting the bogs and forests of eastern Canada, having large, palmate antlers.
  • woodland culture — a long pre-Columbian tradition characterized by the corded pottery of a hunting and later agricultural people of the eastern U.S. noted for the construction of burial mounds and other structures and dating from c1000 b.c. to a.d. 1700.
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
  • worth one's salt — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
  • xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.
  • yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
  • yellow archangel — a Eurasian herbaceous plant (Lamiastrum luteum) that has yellow helmet-shaped flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
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