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15-letter words containing s, u, r, n, o

  • 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]
  • 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.
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • 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
  • meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
  • 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.
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • 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 parnassus — a mountain in central Greece, in NW Boeotia: in ancient times sacred to Dionysus, Apollo, and the Muses, with the Castalian Spring and Delphi on its slopes. Height: 2457 m (8061 ft)
  • 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
  • mouse droppings — 1.   (graphics, operating system, jargon)   Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2.   (web, jargon)   The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
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