15-letter words containing lu
- saline solution — a solution of salt in water, esp one used medicinally or to keep contact lenses moist
- san luis obispo — a city in W California.
- san luis potosi — a state in central Mexico. 24,415 sq. mi. (63,235 sq. km).
- self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
- semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
- silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
- simple pendulum — a hypothetical apparatus consisting of a point mass suspended from a weightless, frictionless thread whose length is constant, the motion of the body about the string being periodic and, if the angle of deviation from the original equilibrium position is small, representing simple harmonic motion (distinguished from physical pendulum).
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
- sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
- solution mining — removal of a soluble mineral by dissolving it and leaching it out, as in the Frasch process.
- specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- strike it lucky — to have some good luck
- superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- suppiluliumas i — king of the Hittites (?1375–?1335 bc); founder of the Hittite empire
- surrender value — cash value.
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- 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.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- torsion modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
- transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trinitrotoluene — TNT.
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- value-added tax — an excise tax based on the value added to a product at each stage of production or distribution: value added is arrived at by subtracting from the total value of the product at the end of each production or distibution stage the value of the goods bought at its inception. Abbreviation: VAT.
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
- volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
- volunteer state — Tennessee (used as a nickname).
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- young's modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between a stress that acts to change the length of a body and the fractional change in length caused by this force.