16-letter words containing ue
- quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- religious issues — Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off holy wars, such as "What is the best operating system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news reader)?", "What about that Heinlein guy, eh?", "What should we add to the new Jargon File?" See holy wars; see also theology, bigot. This term is a prime example of ha ha only serious. People actually develop the most amazing and religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are intangible. The most constructive thing one can do when one stumbles into the crossfire is mumble Get a life! and leave - unless, of course, one's *own* unassailably rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
- san buenaventura — a city in SW California.
- scar tissue code — (humour, programming) Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
- secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
- self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
- self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
- spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
- superb blue wren — a small Australian bird, Malurus cyaneus, the adult male of which has bright blue plumage
- tequendama falls — a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high.
- terminus ad quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
- the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- torque converter — a fluid coupling in which three or more rotors are used, one of which can be checked so that output torque is augmented and output speed diminished.
- true-heartedness — the quality of being true-hearted
- twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
- victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
- with due respect — with deserved esteem
- without question — If you do something without question, you do it without arguing or asking why it is necessary.