15-letter words containing r, o, u, a, l
- noninstrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- nonmatriculated — not matriculated, not enrolled in an institution, esp a college or university
- north australia — a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.
- northern parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- not unnaturally — You can use not unnaturally to indicate that the situation you are describing is exactly as you would expect in the circumstances.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- nuclear reactor — reactor (def 4).
- nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- one's last hour — the time of one's death
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- 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.
- 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-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.
- 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.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
- 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
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
- peculiar people — a small sect of faith healers founded in London in 1838, having no ministers or external organization
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- 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.
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- 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.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure