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15-letter words containing a, e, o, l, t, r

  • appellate court — In the United States, an appellate court is a special court where people who have been convicted of a crime can appeal against their conviction.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arterialization — to convert (venous blood) into arterial blood by the action of oxygen in the lungs.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • asiatic cholera — cholera (def 1).
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atherosclerosis — a degenerative disease of the arteries characterized by patchy thickening of the inner lining of the arterial walls, caused by deposits of fatty material; a form of arteriosclerosis
  • atherosclerotic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with atherosclerosis.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • authoritatively — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • beet leafhopper — a small leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus) that transmits a very destructive virus to sugar beets
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • board of health — an agency with responsibility for health in state, country, etc
  • break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • calcareous tufa — tufa
  • caldecott award — an annual award in the U.S. for an outstanding illustrated juvenile book.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • call-out charge — a set amount charged for a repairman to come to one's house, or to a broken-down vehicle, which is added to the cost of the actual repair
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • cannonball tree — a South American tree, Couroupita guianensis, bearing round, woody-husked fruit whose shells are used to make containers and utensils.
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
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