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

  • developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
  • 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
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • 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
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • 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.
  • external memory — (storage)   A vague term for slower, non-volatile storage, usually magnetic disk, in contrast to main memory which is usually volatile semiconductor RAM.
  • eye examination — an eye test
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • 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.
  • hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • 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.
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • 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.
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • 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.
  • hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
  • hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in the majority — the largest group
  • 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
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
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