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15-letter words containing u, n, c, h, r, l

  • neurochemically — In a neurochemical manner or context.
  • neuropathically — In a neuropathic way.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear warhead — a warhead containing a fission or fusion bomb.
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
  • round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • unchronological — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
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