15-letter words containing n, o, r, s, e
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- lone star state — Texas (used as a nickname).
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
- loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
- lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
- louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
- luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- make one's mark — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
- manorial system — manorialism.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
- materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
- mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
- measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
- metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- microcontinents — Plural form of microcontinent.
- microdissection — dissection performed under a microscope.
- microenterprise — A business operating on a very small scale, especially one with a sole proprietor and fewer than six employees.
- microinjections — Plural form of microinjection.
- microprocessing — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
- millionairesses — Plural form of millionairess.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
- misapprehension — misunderstanding.
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- misproportioned — Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
- misrecollection — the act or power of recollecting, or recalling to mind; remembrance.