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16-letter words containing r, u, l, i, o

  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
  • quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
  • quasi-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
  • rattle around in — to live or work in (a house, office, etc.) that is too big for one's needs
  • razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
  • regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
  • reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • religious issues — Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off holy wars, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein guy, eh?", "What should we add to the new Jargon File?" See holy wars; see also theology, bigot. This term is a prime example of ha ha only serious. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are intangible. The most constructive thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble Get a life! and leave - unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.
  • religious leader — head of a church or order
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • returned soldier — a soldier who has served abroad
  • riau archipelago — a group of islands belonging to Indonesia, off the SE coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. 36,510 sq. mi. (94,561 sq. km).
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • russian roulette — a game of high risk in which each player in turn, using a revolver containing one bullet, spins the cylinder of the revolver, points the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger.
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • schoolgirl crush — an infatuation that a young girl has, usually for an older man such as a teacher or an actor, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
  • sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • snorri sturluson — 1179–1241, Icelandic historian and poet.
  • social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.
  • social structure — structure (def 9).
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • south australian — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • south carolinian — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • spiritualization — to make spiritual.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
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