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15-letter words containing u, n, r, e, l

  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
  • language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • lateran council — any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • left outer join — outer join
  • leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • linear argument — (theory)   A function argument which is used exactly once by the function. If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformation would duplicate the argument expression, causing it to be evaluated more than once. If the argument is sure to be used at least once then it is safe to evaluate it in advance (see strictness analysis) whereas if the argument was not used then this would waste work and might prevent the program from terminating.
  • linear equation — a first-order equation involving two variables: its graph is a straight line in the Cartesian coordinate system.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • liquid nitrogen — nitrogen in a liquid state
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  • lord lieutenant — British. the title of various high officials holding authority deputed from a sovereign.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • measurelessness — The state or condition of being measureless.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
  • methylene group — the bivalent organic group >CH 2 , derived from methane.
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
  • mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
  • 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.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
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