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15-letter words containing r, e, g, u, l

  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroembryology — the branch of embryology dealing with the origin and development of the nervous system.
  • neuroimmunology — a branch of immunology concerned with the interactions between immunological and nervous system functions, especially as they apply to various autoimmune diseases.
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
  • 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.
  • picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
  • pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
  • preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
  • propylene group — the bivalent group −CH(CH 3)CH 2 −, derived from propylene or propane.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
  • regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
  • regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • religious house — a convent or monastery.
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
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