15-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unmaterialistic — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unopportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
- unpretentiously — without pretension
- unprotestantize — to make something (e.g. a church, country, etc) a religion other than Protestant
- unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
- untransmissible — intransmissible
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasoconstrictor — a nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
- vested interest — a special interest in an existing system, arrangement, or institution for particular personal reasons.
- vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- visiting rights — the right to visit someone
- vitry-sur-seine — a city in N central France, on the Seine River, SE of Paris.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
- weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
- wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
- west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
- west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
- west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
- western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
- western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
- white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.