15-letter words containing n, o, u, r, i, s
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- 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
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
- inquisitorially — In an inquisitorial manner.
- instruction set — (architecture) The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- introsusception — intussusception.
- 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.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- junior minister — politics
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
- 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).
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- 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
- meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
- misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.