15-letter words containing t, r, u, e, o
- horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
- horse latitudes — the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- housemistresses — Plural form of housemistress.
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
- ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
- illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- introsusception — intussusception.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- 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]