15-letter words containing r, e, n, o, l
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
- horned oak gall — a small, round tumor, formed around wasp eggs laid in the branches of a pin oak tree, that disrupts the flow of nutrients to the tree, with consequent defoliation and death.
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indian licorice — rosary pea.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- injector nozzle — An injector nozzle is a fine sprayer through which fuel is injected into an engine.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
- intellectronics — a field of study that seeks to develop electronic devices, as robots, that have humanlike intellect and skills.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
- intercolonially — in an intercolonial manner
- intercorrelated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interelectronic — occurring or existing between electrons
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interior salish — in Canada, a division of the peoples who speak Salish languages
- interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.