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15-letter words containing r, u, n, i

  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
  • building permit — a permit for construction work
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • business center — A business center is a room in a hotel with facilities such as computers and a fax machine, that allows guests to work while they are staying at the hotel.
  • business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
  • business person — Business people are people who work in business.
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
  • california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
  • cardinal humour — any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • ceremoniousness — The state of being ceremonious.
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
  • chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • chintz curtains — curtains made of chintz
  • chitlin circuit — a group of clubs and theaters featuring black performers and intended to appeal to black people.
  • church militant — those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circularization — to circulate (a letter, memorandum, etc.).
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
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