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

  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • put a damper on — To put a damper on something means to have an effect on it which stops it being as enjoyable or as successful as it should be.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • quadripartition — A division into four parts.
  • quadruplication — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quality control — a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an existing product or service by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required.
  • quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
  • quarrelsomeness — The quality of being quarrelsome; an argumentative nature. (from 17th c.).
  • quarter pounder — A quarter pounder is a hamburger that weighs four ounces before it is cooked. Four ounces is a quarter of a pound.
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • question master — quizmaster.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • radioimmunology — the study of biological substances or processes with the aid of antigens or antibodies labeled with a radioactive isotope.
  • railway journey — a journey made by railway train
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reauthorization — the act or process of reauthorizing something
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
  • reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
  • 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.
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • repeating group — (database)   Any attribute that can have multiple values associated with a single instance of some entity. For example, a book might have multiple authors. Such a "-to-many" relationship might be represented in an unnormalised relational database as multiple author columns in the book table or a single author(s) column containing a string which was a list of authors. Converting this to "first normal form" is the first step in database normalisation. Each author of the book would appear in a separate row along with the book's primary key. Later nomalisation stages would move the book-author relationship into a separate table to avoid repeating other book attibutes (e.g. title, publisher) for each author.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rough and ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
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