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15-letter words containing a, b, n, o

  • ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
  • around the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
  • as best one can — If someone does something as best they can, they do it as well as they can, although it is very difficult.
  • asbestos cement — a compound of asbestos fiber and Portland cement formerly used for various nonstructural building purposes.
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • baja california — peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (Baja California), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (Baja California Sur), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
  • ball ammunition — live small-arms ammunition
  • balloon barrage — a series of moored balloons, usually strung together and hung with cables, for impeding a low-level attack by enemy aircraft.
  • balloon payment — a large payment that concludes a series of smaller payments, for example in order to repay a loan
  • ballpoint (pen) — a pen having, instead of a point, a small ball bearing that picks up its ink by rolling against an interior ink reservoir
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bank of england — the central bank of the United Kingdom, which acts as banker to the government and the commercial banks. It is responsible for managing the government's debt and implementing its policy on other monetary matters: established in 1694, nationalized in 1946; in 1997 the government restored the authority to set interest rates to the Bank
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • barbizon school — a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • barrage balloon — Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • base technology — (company)   The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • bayonet fitting — a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • be having sb on — If you are having someone on, you are pretending that something is true when it is not true, for example as a joke or in order to tease them.
  • be on one's way — If you are on your way, you have started your journey somewhere.
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beat one's gums — to talk much and idly
  • beat one's meat — to masturbate
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
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