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15-letter words containing u, n, s, t, a, y

  • natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  • neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
  • nonautonomously — In a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy.
  • pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
  • pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
  • 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.
  • postulationally — in a postulational manner
  • 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.
  • questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • 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
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sayan mountains — a mountain range in S central Russia, in S Siberia. Highest peak: Munku-Sardyk, 3437 m (11 457 ft)
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • smoky mountains — Great Smoky Mountains
  • snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
  • sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
  • syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • under secretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • under-secretary — UK ministerial position
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
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