14-letter words containing s, u, r, l, i, n
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- linear measure — any system for measuring length.
- liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
- micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
- national trust — (in Britain) an organization concerned with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments and areas of the countryside of great beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1895 and incorporated by act of parliament in 1907. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- naturalisation — Alternative spelling of naturalization.
- neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
- neutralisation — The act of neutralising.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- nitrocellulose — cellulose nitrate.
- nolle prosequi — an entry made upon the records of a court when the plaintiff or prosecutor will proceed no further in a suit or action. Abbreviation: nol. pros.
- non-altruistic — unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic).
- non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- non-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- non-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- non-resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
- paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
- parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.