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15-letter words containing a, g

  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organic farming — farming with organic methods
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • organized crime — illegal activities co-ordinated by groups
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
  • organomagnesium — pertaining to or noting an organic compound, especially an organic halide, containing magnesium linked to carbon.
  • organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
  • organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • origination fee — a fee charged by a lender for evaluating and processing a loan application, usually a percentage of the face value of the loan.
  • ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
  • ortega y gasset — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • otaheite orange — a small citrus bush, Citrus limonia otaitensis, having fragrant flowers and small orange fruit, often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • out of training — become unfit
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outstandingness — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • over-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • over-exaggerate — to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.
  • over-irrigation — the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
  • overextravagant — excessively extravagant
  • overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • oxidizing agent — a substance that oxidizes another substance, being itself reduced in the process. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ferric salts
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • packing density — a measure of the amount of data that can be held by unit length of a storage medium, such as magnetic tape
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • paget's disease — Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
  • palaeopathology — the study of diseases of ancient man and fossil animals
  • palaeophytology — the study of ancient botany
  • paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
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