15-letter words containing ue
- fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
- football league — highest-level soccer competition
- force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
- frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
- fuel efficiency — the (least) amount of fuel used in proportion to the number of miles travelled
- gene sequencing — the determination of the order in which a particular gene's nucleotides are arranged
- gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
- good queen bess — Elizabeth I
- grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
- guerrilla group — an organized group of guerrillas
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- jacques cartier — Sir George Étienne [zhawrzh ey-tyen] /ʒɔrʒ eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1814–73, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1857–62, defense minister 1867–73.
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyes technique — a system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- keying sequence — a sequence made up of letters or numbers that can encode or decode a polyalphabetic substitution cipher one letter at a time.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- league football — rugby league football
- little bluestem — a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades.
- loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- multiple-valued — many-valued.
- musical statues — a children's party game in which players run around while music is played. Whenever the music stops, the players have to stand motionless. Anyone who moves is out
- national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
- natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- net asset value — the total value of the assets of an organization less its liabilities and capital charges
- non-constituent — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
- norman conquest — the conquest of England by the Normans, under William the Conqueror, in 1066.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
- out of the blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- pre-delinquency — failure in or neglect of duty or obligation; dereliction; default: delinquency in payment of dues.
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
- queen maud land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Africa: Norwegian explorations.
- queen of heaven — a designation of the Virgin Mary.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- queen's counsel — King's Counsel.
- queen's english — king's English.
- queen's highway — king's highway.