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15-letter words containing o, i, l, e, r, y

  • royal engineers — a branch of the British army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, and other engineering works
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
  • septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • serial monogamy — a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime.
  • silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
  • simple majority — less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • squirrel monkey — either of two small, long-tailed monkeys, Saimiri oerstedii of Central America and S. sciureus of South America, having a small white face with black muzzle and gold, brown, or greenish fur: S. oerstedii is endangered.
  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • taylor's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(z) in the neighbourhood of a point a in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at a. Under certain conditions, the series has the form f(z) = f(a) + [f′(a)(z – a)]/1! + [f″(a)(z – a)2]/2! + …
  • tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
  • tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • thioallyl ether — allyl sulfide.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
  • voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
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