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15-letter words containing r, o, u, n, c, e

  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarraceniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sarraceniaceae, an American family of pitcher plants
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
  • service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • sound recordist — recordist.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
  • source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • spinous process — a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebra.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
  • training course — practical programme of study
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