14-letter words containing r, u, n, e, s
- turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
- turn the screw — to increase the pressure
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- ultramasculine — extremely masculine
- ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
- ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- ultroneousness — spontaneity; free will
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- uncheerfulness — (of a person) lack of cheerfulness; gloominess; unhappiness
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- under the rose — in secret; privately; sub rosa
- under-consumed — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- under-research — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- underinsurance — insurance purchased against damage or loss of property in an amount less than its true value, sometimes bought intentionally by the insured with full knowledge of the risk.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- underrepresent — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
- undersaturated — unsaturated (def 2).
- undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- understructure — a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation: The building has a strong understructure.
- undersubscribe — to subscribe for less of than is available, expected, or required: The concert series is undersubscribed and may be cancelled.
- undeservedness — the quality or state of being undeserved
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unfriendedness — the state of being unfriended
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious