15-letter words containing u, n, t, r, s
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
- inter-structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- introsusception — intussusception.
- inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- junior minister — politics
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- 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
- 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.
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- living quarters — accommodation
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- lung transplant — a medical operation in which the lungs are taken out of someone who has died and are placed into another person's body
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.