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15-letter words containing ure

  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
  • in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • inter-structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • japanese laurel — an eastern Asian evergreen shrub, Aucuba japonica, of the dogwood family, having dark-green, glossy leaves and scarlet berries.
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • lecture theatre — auditorium
  • 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.
  • macro-structure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • 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.
  • marcus aurelius — Marcus, Marcus Aurelius.
  • marriage bureau — an agency that provides introductions to single people seeking a marriage partner
  • measurelessness — The state or condition of being measureless.
  • measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • microstructures — Plural form of microstructure.
  • mis-measurement — the act of measuring.
  • mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
  • mountain laurel — any of various ericaceous shrubs or trees of the genus Kalmia, esp K. latifolia of E North America, which has leathery poisonous leaves and clusters of pink or white flowers
  • non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonarchitecture — a building not designed according to accepted modes of architecture
  • nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • over-structured — excessively structured or organized.
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
  • pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • picture element — (graphics)   (pixel) The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB). Compare voxel.
  • picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • picture-perfect — ideal in appearance,
  • picturesqueness — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • pleasure cruise — a trip in a boat for recreational purposes
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • pleasure-seeker — someone who always wants to have pleasure
  • popular culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
  • portugal laurel — Prunus lusitanica; type of cherry
  • postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • power structure — the system of authority or influence in government, politics, education, etc.: The state elections threatened to upset the existing power structure.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • pressure center — the central point of an atmospheric high or low.
  • pressure cooker — a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure.
  • pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
  • pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.
  • 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.
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