15-letter words containing o, n, y, u
- odontorhynchous — (of birds) having toothlike ridges inside the beak
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- ornithorhynchus — the platypus.
- out on your ear — If someone says that you will be out on your ear, they mean that you will be forced to leave a job, an organization or a place suddenly.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
- pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
- phenylketonuria — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
- plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- postulationally — in a postulational manner
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
- pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
- quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
- query expansion — (information science) Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quezon y molina — Manuel Luis [mah-nwel lwees] /mɑˈnwɛl lwis/ (Show IPA), 1878–1944, Philippine political leader; 1st president of the Philippine Commonwealth 1933–44.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests