15-letter words containing s, u, r, l, i, n
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
- rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.