15-letter words containing s, u, n, c, r
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- introsusception — intussusception.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- 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.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- menispermaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Menispermaceae, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical plants, most of which are woody climbers with small flowers
- menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
- misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
- monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
- mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- muscle relaxant — A muscle relaxant is any drug which relaxes muscles and may be used to treat muscle spasms and muscle pain.
- mushroom anchor — a stockless anchor having a bowlike head, used chiefly for semipermanent moorings.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
- natural justice — accepted moral principles
- natural science — a science or knowledge of objects or processes observable in nature, as biology or physics, as distinguished from the abstract or theoretical sciences, as mathematics or philosophy.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.