15-letter words that end in le
- urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
- utility vehicle — A utility vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
- vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
- venus-s--girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- vertical circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the zenith.
- virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
- wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
- wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
- whalebone whale — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of whalebone on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- winner's circle — a small, usually circular area or enclosure at a racetrack where awards are bestowed on winning mounts and their jockeys.
- z-zero particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.