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15-letter words containing a, l, n, c

  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antimonarchical — opposed to the monarchy
  • antimony glance — stibnite
  • antiperistaltic — reversed peristaltic action of the intestines, by which their contents are carried upward.
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • aplastic anemia — a form of anemia resulting from a failure of the bone marrow to produce adequate quantities of the essential blood components, including leukocytes and platelets
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
  • appendicularian — of or relating to a family of molluscs (Appendicularia) characterized by their long tail appendages
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • arroz con pollo — a Latin American dish consisting of chicken and rice cooked usually with saffron
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
  • assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • audience appeal — the quality of being attractive to an audience
  • authenticatable — to establish as genuine.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • autoinoculation — the inoculation of microorganisms (esp viruses) from one part of the body into another, usually in the form of a vaccine
  • bacchanalianism — the practice of bacchanalian behaviour; drunken revelry
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • baja california — peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (Baja California), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (Baja California Sur), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • balanced rudder — a rudder so designed that the center of water pressure on the forward face, when turned, lies about halfway along the length, minimizing the turning effort required.
  • 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.
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • banana republic — Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics.
  • barbizon school — a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
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