15-letter words containing ust
- industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- just intonation — a system of tuning based on the pure perfect fifth and major third.
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- 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.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
- light in august — a novel (1932) by William Faulkner.
- luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
- metallic luster — luster1 (def 8).
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- natural justice — accepted moral principles
- non combustible — not flammable.
- non-combustible — not flammable.
- non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
- north australia — a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- perseus cluster — a cluster of about 500 galaxies in the direction of the constellation Perseus, grouped around a particular Seyfert galaxy that is an intense radio source (Perseus A)
- post-industrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
- semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- south australia — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
- spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
- sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
- sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
- to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
- treacle mustard — a N temperate cruciferous annual plant, Erysimum cheiranthoides, having small yellow flowers. It is a common weed in cultivated ground
- trust territory — a territory under the administrative control of a country designated by the United Nations.
- trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
- trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- well-accustomed — customary; usual; habitual: in their accustomed manner.
- wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
- zapata mustache — a large mustache that curves down the corners of the mouth.