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15-letter words containing a, d, i, n, t

  • antieducational — opposing the provision of knowledge
  • antifederalists — Plural form of antifederalist.
  • antitraditional — opposed to or acting with disregard for tradition
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • assistant judge — a person who assists a judge in their work or who is not yet fully qualified as a judge
  • assisted living — Assisted living is a type of housing specially designed for people who need help in their everyday lives, but who do not need specialist nursing care. In assisted living facilities, residents live in independent rooms or apartments, but receive help with day-to-day activities, for example bathing, dressing, preparing meals, and taking their medicines.
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at sb's bidding — If you do something at someone's bidding, you do it because they have asked you to do it.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • audience rating — a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • augmented sixth — an interval greater than a major sixth by a chromatic half step.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • 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."
  • bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • balanced ticket — a slate of candidates chosen to appeal to a wide range of voters, especially by including members of large regional, ethnic, or religious groups.
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • cabin attendant — flight attendant.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
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