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15-letter words containing ur

  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
  • insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
  • insurance class — An insurance class is a type of insurance coverage such as liability, health, legal expenses, or construction risk.
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
  • insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
  • insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
  • inter-structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • interculturally — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
  • intrapreneurial — Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.
  • japanese laurel — an eastern Asian evergreen shrub, Aucuba japonica, of the dogwood family, having dark-green, glossy leaves and scarlet berries.
  • japanese spurge — a low Japanese plant, Pachysandra terminalis, having evergreen leaves and spikes of white flowers, grown as a ground cover.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • keyhole surgery — operation done by laparoscopy
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • lauric aldehyde — a colorless, extremely alcohol-soluble liquid having a strong floral odor, C 12 H 24 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • leathery turtle — a large turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, of warm and tropical seas, having a ridged leathery carapace: family Dermochelidae
  • lecture theatre — auditorium
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • macro-structure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • macrostructural — relating to or resembling a macrostructure
  • macrostructures — Plural form of macrostructure.
  • made to measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
  • made-to-measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
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