15-letter words containing n, u, v
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- simian virus 40 — SV 40.
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- souvanna phouma — Prince, 1901–84, Laotian statesman: premier 1951–54, 1956–58, 1960, and 1962–75.
- subcivilization — a division of a civilization
- subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
- subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- substantiveness — a noun.
- subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
- sunrise service — (sometimes initial capital letters) an outdoor religious service held at dawn on Easter morning.
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- suppressiveness — the quality of being suppressive
- surrender value — cash value.
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
- tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
- television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
- unauthoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
- uncommunicative — not inclined to talk or disclose information; reserved; taciturn.
- uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- undeservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- 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.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.