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15-letter words containing a, l, i, e, n, d

  • nonmelodramatic — Not melodramatic.
  • nonprecedential — Not precedential.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • old high german — High German before 1100. Abbreviation: OHG.
  • oligodendroglia — Oligodendrocytes collectively.
  • omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
  • one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
  • open-pollinated — (of a flower) pollinated without human agency.
  • operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
  • operationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalize.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • palais de danse — a dance hall
  • paracel islands — a group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the N South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims by China and Vietnam
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • partial denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
  • pelargonic acid — a colorless, oily, water-immiscible liquid, C 9 H 1 8 O 2 , occurring as an ester in a volatile oil in species of pelargonium: used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of lacquers and plastics.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • phenylhydrazine — a yellow, poisonous liquid or low-melting solid, C 6 H 8 N 2 , used in chemical analysis and organic synthesis.
  • phoenix islands — a group of eight coral islands in the central Pacific: administratively part of Kiribati. Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles). The islands and surrounding waters form the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area. Area: 410 500 sq km (158 500 sq miles)
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
  • pneumatic drill — a percussive power drill powered by compressed air
  • point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
  • prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
  • prince's island — former name of Príncipe.
  • principal ideal — the smallest ideal containing a given element in a ring; an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, obtained by multiplying each element of the ring by one specified element.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • proletarianized — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
  • propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
  • pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
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