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15-letter words containing a, p, i, g, n, o

  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
  • in a tight spot — in difficult situation
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • moo goo gai pan — a dish of sliced chicken stir-fried with button mushrooms and, often, assorted vegetables.
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
  • negative option — a clause in a sales contract, as for a series of books or records, that provides that merchandise will be sent periodically to the subscriber unless he or she notifies the company in writing that it is not wanted.
  • negative profit — a financial loss
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • nitramino group — the univalent group –NHNO 2 .
  • nodding pogonia — a rare orchid, Triphora trianthophora, of the eastern U.S., bearing three pink flowers.
  • non-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • non-overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
  • old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • optical tooling — the technique of establishing precise reference lines and planes by means of telescopic sights, especially for the purpose of aligning machinery, machine-shop work, etc.
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
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