15-letter words containing u, r, i, e, l
- regular premium — A regular premium is money paid to buy insurance coverage in installments at particular time intervals, such as monthly or annually.
- regulation time — the standard duration of a sports game, before the addition of any extra time to determine a winner, etc
- regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- relief supplies — food, water, medication, clothes, etc given to people in need, esp in disaster areas
- religious house — a convent or monastery.
- religious order — monks: monastery
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- richelieu river — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
- rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
- rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
- riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
- rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
- rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
- rump parliament — the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
- running english — the giving of English or spin to the cue ball to enable it to bounce in the direction of a certain angle. Compare reverse English (def 1).
- russell's attic — (mathematics) An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.
- russell's viper — a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body.
- russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
- sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- seleucia pieria — an ancient port in Syria, on the River Orontes: the port of Antioch, of military importance during the wars between the Ptolemies and Seleucids; largely destroyed by earthquake in 526; site of present-day Samandaǧ (Turkey)
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.