15-letter words containing u, l, t, r, a, s
- north australia — a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- one's last hour — the time of one's death
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.
- particularistic — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
- pectoral muscle — muscle of the chest
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- 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.
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- 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.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- 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.
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- rat-tail cactus — a cactus, Aporocactus flagelliformis, of Mexico, having slim, cylindrical stems that are easily trained into strange designs, and crimson flowers.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- 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
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
- residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- russell's attic — (mathematics) An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.