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15-letter words containing n, o, s, u, l

  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • irreligiousness — The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  • lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
  • 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.
  • louis of nassau — 1538–74, a leader (1568–74) of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain: died in battle
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
  • mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • miscalculations — Plural form of miscalculation.
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
  • multnomah falls — a waterfall on Multnomah Creek in NW Oregon, E of Portland. 611 feet (186 meters) high.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
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