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15-letter words containing a, s, p, o

  • apostles' creed — a concise statement of Christian beliefs dating from about 500 ad, traditionally ascribed to the Apostles
  • apostolic vicar — vicar apostolic.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apostrophically — (rhetoric) Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • approach lights — lights on the runway that guide planes coming in to land
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
  • archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • array processor — (processor)   (Or "vector processor") A computer, or extension to its arithmetic unit, that is capable of performing simultaneous computations on elements of an array or table of data in some number of dimensions. The IBM AltiVec (the "Velocity Engine" used in the Apple G4 computers) is a vector processor. Common uses for array processors include analysis of fluid dynamics and rotation of 3d objects, as well as data retrieval, in which elements of a database are scanned simultaneously. Array processors are very rare now (1998).
  • asclepiadaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae
  • assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
  • assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
  • astrophotograph — a photograph of the heavenly bodies
  • astrophotometry — the measurement of the intensity of light of celestial objects.
  • astrophysically — from an astrophysical point of view
  • astrophysicists — Plural form of astrophysicist.
  • at pistol point — being under or using the threat of being shot
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • autobiographers — Plural form of autobiographer.
  • autobiographies — Plural form of autobiography.
  • autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
  • autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
  • autotransplants — Plural form of autotransplant.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • 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)
  • blasphemousness — the quality of being blasphemous
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
  • capitalizations — Plural form of capitalization.
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