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15-letter words containing a, n, o, m, i, e

  • antiremonstrant — the party that opposed the Remonstrants
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • aqueous ammonia — ammonia (def 2).
  • aqueous-ammonia — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • armour-piercing — capable of penetrating armour plate
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • biomechanically — from a biomechanical point of view
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • carbon monoxide — Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is produced especially by the engines of vehicles.
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
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