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15-letter words containing u

  • angel's-trumpet — any of several plants belonging to the genera Brugmansia and Datura, of the nightshade family, having large, trumpet-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
  • anglican church — any Church of the Anglican Communion or the Anglican Communion itself
  • angry young man — one of several British novelists and playwrights of the 1950s who shared a hostility towards the established traditions and ruling elements of their country
  • angry young men — a group of young writers in Great Britain after WWII, bitterly critical of upper-class and middle-class values, practices, etc.
  • angular measure — the units used to measure angles. Compare angle1 (def 1c).
  • angustirostrate — having a narrow, beak-like part
  • anne de beaujeu — (Anne de Beaujeu) 1460–1522, daughter of Louis XI of France: regent during the minority of her brother Charles VIII 1483–91.
  • anne hutchinson — Anne Marbury [mahr-buh-ree] /ˈmɑr bə ri/ (Show IPA), 1591–1643, American religious liberal, born in England: banished from Massachusetts 1637.
  • anne of austria — 1601–66, wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of Spain: regent of France (1643–61) for her son Louis XIV
  • annual parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
  • annuity certain — an annuity payable for a certain number of years regardless of any contingency.
  • annuity payment — a payment that the investor receives at regular intervals from an annuity
  • annular eclipse — an eclipse of the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
  • annulled branch — delayed control-transfer
  • annus mirabilis — a year of wonders, catastrophes, or other notable events
  • antepenultimate — third from last
  • anthony burgess — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
  • anthropophagous — Who practices anthropophagy.
  • anti-corruption — the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
  • anti-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • anti-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
  • anti-naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
  • anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • anti-puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • anti-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • antibureaucracy — Opposed to bureaucracy.
  • anticancer drug — a drug used to treat cancer
  • anticoagulation — (medicine) Acting to combat or prevent coagulation of blood.
  • anticommutative — (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the negative of the second operating on the first, as ab = −ba.
  • anticonvulsants — Plural form of anticonvulsant.
  • antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • anybody's guess — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
  • apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
  • apollo computer — (company)   A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. Apollo's networking was particularly elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and low sysadmin-to-machine ratio that is still unmatched. Apollo's largest customers were Mentor Graphics (electronic design), GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Boeing (mechanical design). Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989, and gradually closed down over the period 1990-1997.
  • appeal tribunal — An appeal tribunal is a special court or committee that is formed to reconsider a decision made by another court or committee.
  • appellate court — In the United States, an appellate court is a special court where people who have been convicted of a crime can appeal against their conviction.
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • appropinquation — the action of approaching
  • aqueous ammonia — ammonia (def 2).
  • aqueous-ammonia — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • arch of triumph — Arc de Triomphe.
  • archaebacterium — Any primitive bacteria-like organism in the kingdom Archaea.
  • architecturally — of or relating to architecture: architectural metals.
  • argumentatively — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
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