15-letter words containing a, p, o, i, n
- anthroposophist — A proponent of anthroposophy.
- anti-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- anti-corruption — the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
- anti-pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- antiaphrodisiac — something that represses sexual desire
- anticardiolipin — (medicine, immunology) Directed against cardiolipin.
- anticipointment — (rare) The state of mind resulting from excitedly anticipating a strongly promoted product, event, film, etc, and then being disappointed when it fails to meet the expectations generated by this promotion.
- anticompetitive — (in business) discouraging competition
- antidevelopment — (of a group) opposed to development
- antihypotensive — An antihypotensive is any drug that raises low blood pressure.
- antipornography — opposed to or acting against pornography
- antipositivists — Plural form of antipositivist.
- antiprogressive — opposed to or acting against progression in society
- antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
- antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
- apolipoproteins — Plural form of apolipoprotein.
- apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
- apple macintosh — Macintosh
- apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
- appropinquation — the action of approaching
- appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- approval rating — approval of a politician as shown by opinion polls
- approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
- 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
- assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
- at pistol point — being under or using the threat of being shot
- at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
- audio equipment — electrical devices used to play or record sound
- away-going crop — a crop planted by a tenant that matures after the expiration of the tenancy and is rightfully the tenant's to harvest.
- 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.
- balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
- ballpoint (pen) — a pen having, instead of a point, a small ball bearing that picks up its ink by rolling against an interior ink reservoir
- bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
- bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
- bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
- black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
- bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
- branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
- break-in period — a period during which certain restrictions or moderation in operating should be followed, as the avoidance of high speed, rapid acceleration, or severe braking for a new automobile.
- breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
- breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
- brompheniramine — a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.
- 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