16-letter words containing u, n, i, l, e
- publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- pull the strings — be in control
- pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
- purple gallinule — a purple, blue, green, and white gallinule, Porphyrula martinica, inhabiting warmer areas of the New World, having a bright red, yellow, and blue bill, and lemon-yellow legs and feet.
- purple sandpiper — a sandpiper, Calidris maritima, of arctic regions of the New and Old World, having in winter a slate-gray back with purplish reflections.
- quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
- quadrimillennial — Occurring every four thousand years.
- quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
- quasi-equivalent — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- quatercentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 400 years.
- queen's shilling — king's shilling.
- questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
- quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
- quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
- quintessentially — of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
- rattle around in — to live or work in (a house, office, etc.) that is too big for one's needs
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
- regular gasoline — unleaded gasoline or petrol, as for fuelling a vehicle, etc
- reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
- relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
- republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
- residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
- returned soldier — a soldier who has served abroad
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
- ring-billed gull — a North American gull, Larus delawarensis, having a black ring around the bill.
- robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
- romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
- run-time library — (operating system, programming, library) A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
- russian roulette — a game of high risk in which each player in turn, using a revolver containing one bullet, spins the cylinder of the revolver, points the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger.
- sales automation — Sales Force Automation
- saturation level — carrying capacity.
- schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.