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15-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, o

  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • authentications — Plural form of authentication.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autoinoculation — the inoculation of microorganisms (esp viruses) from one part of the body into another, usually in the form of a vaccine
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • bioaccumulation — the process in which industrial waste, toxic chemicals, etc. gradually accumulate in living tissue
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • bituminous coal — a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 107 – 3.63 × 107 J/kg
  • black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • boa constrictor — A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
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