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15-letter words containing o, r, a, i, u

  • out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
  • out of thin air — suddenly and unexpectedly
  • out of training — become unfit
  • outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • outer barrister — a barrister belonging to the outer bar.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • over-articulate — excessively articulate
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • partial product — the result obtained when a number is multiplied by one digit of a multiplier
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • peak production — the maximum production
  • peculiar people — a small sect of faith healers founded in London in 1838, having no ministers or external organization
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • 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.
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pierrot lunaire — a cycle of 21 songs (1912) for voice and instruments, by Arnold Schönberg, written in Sprechgesang style and set to poems of Albert Giraud in German translation.
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • poststimulatory — following stimulation
  • posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
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