15-letter words containing a, l, i, s, o
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- noninstrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
- nonsensicalness — Nonsensicality.
- nonsimultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- north australia — a former division of Australia; now part of the Northern Territory.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- obsidional coin — siege piece.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- 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 wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- old-established — established for a long time
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- one-dimensional — having one dimension only.
- onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
- optical scanner — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
- optical storage — optical disk drive
- opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- 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).
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.