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15-letter words containing a, c, r, o, n, i

  • angina pectoris — a sudden intense pain in the chest, often accompanied by feelings of suffocation, caused by momentary lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle
  • animal charcoal — carbon obtained from the carbonization of organic tissue of animals.
  • anisotropically — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
  • antarctic ocean — the sea surrounding Antarctica, consisting of the most southerly parts of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans
  • anthropocentric — regarding man as the most important and central factor in the universe
  • anthropological — the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
  • anthropometrics — the science of measuring the size and proportions of the human body (called anthropometry), especially as applied to the design of furniture and machines.
  • anthropomorphic — Anthropomorphic means relating to the idea that an animal, a god, or an object has feelings or characteristics like those of a human being.
  • anthropopsychic — the attribution of consciousness to divine beings and nature
  • anti-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • anti-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
  • anti-conformist — a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
  • anti-corruption — the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
  • anti-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • antiaphrodisiac — something that represses sexual desire
  • antiaristocracy — Opposed to the aristocracy.
  • anticarcinogens — Plural form of anticarcinogen.
  • anticardiolipin — (medicine, immunology) Directed against cardiolipin.
  • anticholesterol — an agent which acts against cholesterol, either as an antibody produced naturally by many mammals or in the form of a drug
  • anticholinergic — blocking nerve impulses through the parasympathetic nerves
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antihemorrhagic — That stops or reduces hemorrhage.
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antimonarchical — opposed to the monarchy
  • antiromanticism — the opposition to romanticism
  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
  • audio recording — an electronic recording of sound
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • away-going crop — a crop planted by a tenant that matures after the expiration of the tenancy and is rightfully the tenant's to harvest.
  • 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 theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • 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
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • 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
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