0%

15-letter words containing ur

  • pretty pictures — (scientific computation) The next step up from numbers. Interesting graphical output from a program that may not have any sensible relationship to the system the program is intended to model, but good for showing to management.
  • primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure and simple — sheer, utter
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • purple trillium — birthroot (def 1).
  • purposelessness — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quarter century — a period of twenty five years
  • qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
  • railway journey — a journey made by railway train
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • required course — an obligatory course for all students
  • resource centre — a place which provides information, equipment and support
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • resurrectionist — a person who brings something to life or view again.
  • resurrectionize — to bring back from or raise from the dead
  • riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
  • rigel kentaurus — Alpha Centauri.
  • rigil kentaurus — Astronomy. Alpha Centauri.
  • royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
  • ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
  • security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?