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15-letter words containing a, l, s, t, o, n

  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • lone star state — Texas (used as a nickname).
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • main royal mast — the part of the mainmast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, the main topgallantmast.
  • malassimilation — imperfect incorporation of nutrients into body tissue.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • marginalisation — (British) alternative spelling of marginalization.
  • masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
  • materialisation — Alternative spelling of materialization.
  • mean solar time — time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.
  • mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • miscalculations — Plural form of miscalculation.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
  • mitral stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • multnomah falls — a waterfall on Multnomah Creek in NW Oregon, E of Portland. 611 feet (186 meters) high.
  • name resolution — (networking)   The process of mapping a name into its corresponding address. The Domain Name System is the system which does name resolution on the Internet.
  • nanocrystalline — Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals.
  • natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
  • nation of islam — an organization composed chiefly of African Americans, advocating the teachings of Islam and originally favoring the separation of black and white racial groups in the United States: members are known as Black Muslims.
  • national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
  • national school — (in Ireland) a state primary school
  • national status — the status of someone as regarding their citizenship of a country
  • nationalisation — Act of taking formerly private assets into public or state ownership.
  • natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • neat's-foot oil — a pale-yellow fixed oil made by boiling the feet and shinbones of cattle, used chiefly as a dressing for leather.
  • necessary stool — close-stool.
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