15-letter words containing ru
- trumpet creeper — any climbing plant belonging to the genus Campsis, of the bignonia family, especially C. radicans, of the southern U.S., having elliptic leaves and large, red, trumpet-shaped flowers.
- trust territory — a territory under the administrative control of a country designated by the United Nations.
- trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
- trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
- 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
- two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unreconstructed — stubbornly maintaining earlier positions, beliefs, etc.; not adjusted to new or current situations: an unreconstructed conservative.
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.