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15-letter words containing a, n, o, d, y, e

  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • expanded memory — (storage)   Memory used through EMS. In systems based on Intel 80386 or later processor expanded memory is part of the extended memory that is mapped into the expanded memory page frame by the processor. The mapping is controlled by the EMM. In earlier systems, a dedicated EMS hardware adaptor is needed to map memory into the page frame. In both cases, an appropriate device driver is needed for the proper communication between hardware and EMM.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holyhead island — former name of Holy Island (def 2).
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • hypoionian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G, with the final on C.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in the old days — a long time ago
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
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