15-letter words containing u, n, t, a, s
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- 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.
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- post-parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- poststimulation — occurring after stimulation
- posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
- postulationally — in a postulational manner
- practical nurse — a person who has not graduated from an accredited school of nursing but whose vocation is caring for the sick.
- pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- prelate nullius — a prelate having independent jurisdiction over a district not under a diocesan bishop.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- 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.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- 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.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- quasi-quotation — a metalinguistic device for referring to the form of an expression containing variables without referring to the symbols for those variables. Thus while "not p" refers to the expression consisting of the word not followed by the letter p, the quasi-quotation ⌈ not p ⌉ refers to the form of any expression consisting of the word not followed by any value of the variable p
- quasi-technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- queen's pattern — a pattern of ceramic decoration consisting of bands of swirling radial lines, white on blue alternating with red on white.
- question master — quizmaster.
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
- 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.
- qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D