15-letter words containing a, m, i, t, o
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
- take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- tatra mountains — a mountain range along the border between Slovakia and Poland, extending for about 64 km (40 miles): the highest range of the central Carpathians. Highest peak: Gerlachovka, 2663 m (8737 ft)
- teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
- telamonian ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
- teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
- terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
- the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
- the midas touch — ability to make money
- the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
- the working man — working class people collectively
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- time and motion — A time and motion study is a study of the way that people do a particular job, or the way they work in a particular place in order to discover the most efficient methods of working.
- time dilatation — Physics. (in relativity) the apparent loss of time of a moving clock as observed by a stationary observer.
- time immemorial — Also called time out of mind. time in the distant past beyond memory or record: Those carvings have been there from time immemorial.
- timolol maleate — a beta blocker, C 13 H 24 N 4 O 3 S⋅C 4 H 4 O 4 , used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and glaucoma.
- tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
- to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
- to have it made — If you say that someone has it made or has got it made, you mean that they are certain to be rich or successful.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- total serialism — (in some music after 1945) the use of serial techniques applied to such elements as rhythm, dynamics, and tone colour, as found in the early works of Stockhausen, Boulez, etc
- totalitarianism — the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- transition team — a group of people who manage the transition between one system, administrative regime, etc and another
- transmissometer — an instrument for measuring visibility or the transmission of light in the atmosphere.
- traumatological — relating to traumatology
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
- tricolor camera — a camera for taking color photographs in which three separation negatives are exposed simultaneously by splitting the light from the subject with prisms and mirrors, and exposing through appropriate filters.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- truman doctrine — the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
- trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
- turnaround time — the total time taken between the submission of a program for execution and the return of the complete output to the customer
- tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
- twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.