15-letter words containing u, l, a, g, e, r
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
- metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
- mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
- negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- parent language — an earlier language from which another is derived.
- picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
- pig, run like a — To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- plural marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- regulatory gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- rogues' gallery — a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- run the gantlet — to be punished by means of the gantlet
- sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- 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-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
- source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
- structural gene — cistron.