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14-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r, e

  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • trucial states — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • ultrarealistic — extremely realistic
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
  • universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • unmaterialised — not materialised
  • unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • unpleasantries — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
  • unpresidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • unrestrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unsisterliness — the quality of being unsisterly
  • unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
  • urine analysis — urinalysis.
  • user-definable — (of a facility on a computer) that can be defined or varied by the user
  • valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
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