15-letter words containing n, u, r, i, s, t
- ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- unconstrainable — unable to be confined
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- underestimation — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unmaterialistic — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unopportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprotestantize — to make something (e.g. a church, country, etc) a religion other than Protestant
- unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
- untransmissible — intransmissible
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- vitry-sur-seine — a city in N central France, on the Seine River, SE of Paris.
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
- western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
- wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.
- winter quarters — housing or accommodation for the winter, esp for military personnel
- writ of summons — a writ requiring one to appear in court to answer a complaint.