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15-letter words containing s, t, o, u

  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
  • inquisitorially — In an inquisitorial manner.
  • instantaneously — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
  • institutionally — of, relating to, or established by institution.
  • instruction set — (architecture)   The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
  • insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
  • insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • introsusception — intussusception.
  • intussusception — a taking within.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
  • it's sb's shout — If you are in a pub and someone you are with says 'It's your shout' or 'It's my shout', they mean that it is your turn or their turn to buy a round of drinks.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • john ousterhout — (person)   /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
  • joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • junior minister — politics
  • juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • jus postliminii — postliminy.
  • just intonation — a system of tuning based on the pure perfect fifth and major third.
  • justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
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